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Henry  E.  Bothin 


HENRY  ERNEST  BOTHIN  is  one  of 
the  energetic  and  progressive  capitalists 
who  have  never  lost  faith  in  San  Fran- 
cisco's possibilities  and  who  are  today  see- 
ing that  faith  justified.  In  the  fire  of  1 906 
Mr.  Bothin  was  a  very  heavy  loser,  seven- 
ty-nine buildings  belonging  to  him  being  de- 
stroyed. Forty-two  of  them  have  been  rebuilt. 
Mr.  Bothin  is  president  of  the  Judson  Manufac- 
turing Company,  and  is  also  head  of  the  Bothin 
Realty  Company.  He  was  born  in  Ohio  in 
1853.     Politically  he  is  a  Republican. 


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F.  B.  Lloyd 


FB.  LLOYD  is  president  of  the  Pacific 
•  Surety  Company  and  has  for  several 
years  been  engaged  in  the  insurance  business  in 
San  Francisco  with  unusual  success.  His  father, 
Frederick  B.  Lloyd,  was  English  by  birth,  and 
his  mother,  Jane  Lloyd,  was  Irish.  Mr.  Lloyd 
was  born  in  New  Zealand  in  1873.  His  offices 
are  in  the  First  National  Bank  Building  and  he 
handles  some  of  the  largest  insurance  policies  in 
the  city. 


Arthur  G.  Nason 


ARTHUR  GRAHAM  NASON,  presi- 
dent of  the  Arthur  G.  Nason  Company, 
whose  father,  Henry  Nason,  was  president  of 
the  New  York  Gram  Exchange,  was  born  m 
New   York   m    1858. 

In  1  880  he  entered  the  cattle  business  in  West 
Texas,  and  in  1  885  moved  to  San  Diego,  where 
he  married  Ada  Ward  of  San  Saba,  Texas,  and 
moved  to  San  Francisco  in  I  900  to  take  the  man- 
agement of  the  Continental  Fire  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  New  York. 

He  now  represents  that  company,  which  made 
a  wonderful  record  in  the  San  Francisco  confla- 
gration. Also  he  represents  the  Fidelity-Phoenix 
Fire  Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  and  is 
general  agent  for  the  Pennsylvania  Casualty  Com- 
pany of  Scranton,  Pa. 

Mr.  Nason  has  held  several  public  offices  and 
for  fifteen  years  has  been  president  of  the  San 
Diego  Humane  Society. 


Joy  B.  Lichtenstein 


JOY  B.  LICHTENSTEIN,  general  agent 
of  the  American  Bonding  Company  of 
Baltimore,  was  born  m  San  Francisco  October 
14th,  1874. 

He  was  educated  m  the  San  Francisco  Public 
Schools,  and  the  University  of  California,  from 
which  institution  he  graduated  in  1  90 1 . 

From  I  894  up  till  the  time  of  the  great  lire  of 
I  906  he  was  assistant  librarian  of  the  San  Fran- 
cisco public  library.  He  is  the  author  of  "For  the 
Blue  and  Gold,"  a  tale  of  life  at  the  University 
of  California,  and  various  bibliographical  works. 
At  present  he  writes  only  bonds. 

He  is  a  popular  citizen,  and  well  known  in 
literary  circles. 


Milton  A.  Nathan 


MILTON  A.  NATHAN  was  born  on 
Washington's  Birthday,  February  22, 
1879,  at  Colusa,  California,  and  moved  to 
San  Francisco  when  a  lad.  He  graduated 
from  the  old  Lincoln  school  at  Fifth  and 
Market  streets,  San  Francisco,  then  the  Boys' 
High  School,  and  was  attendmg  Hastmg's 
College  of  the  law  when  the  Spanish-Amer- 
ican war  broke  out.  Filled  with  patriotism  he 
dropped  his  Blackstone  for  his  Springfield  and 
enlisted  in  the  First  Regiment  of  California  Vol- 
unteers at  McKinley's  first  call,  serving  through- 
out the  Spanish  war  and  in  the  Philippine  insur- 
rection. He  was  successively  company  trumpeter, 
corporal  and  sergeant.  He  was  wounded  before 
Manila,  August  I  3th,  I  898,  and  was  awarded 
a  Congressional  Medal  of  Honor. 

Upon  being  mustered  out  of  the  service  at  the  close  of  the  war  he  resumed  his  legal  studies  and 
was  admitted  to  practice  before  the  Supreme  Court  of  California  on  September  14th,  1900, 
and  before  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  UnitedStates,  at  Washington,  October  24th,  1904,  on 
motion  of  the  Attorney-General. 

Mr.  Nathan  is  prominent  in  many  fraternal  organizations,  notably  the  Masons,  the  Native 
Sons  of  the  Golden  West,  the  Foresters  of  America,  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  National  Union, 
the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees,  the  United  Spanish  War  Veterans,  the  I.  O.  B.  B.,  and  the  Or- 
der of  the  Eastern  Star. 

He  is  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  the  law  with  offices  in  the  Chronicle  Building. 


CHARLES  H. 
CROCKER 

President 

of  the 

H.  S.  Crocker  Co. 


Fernando  Nelson 


IT  IS  the  boast  of  Fernando  Nelson  that  he 
has  built  more  houses  in  San  Francisco  than 
any  other  individual  or  any  corporation  in  the 
city. 

If  all  the  houses  built  by  him  were  placed  side 
by  side  they  would  stretch  as  far  as  from  the 
Ferry  building  to  the  Presidio. 

Fernando  Nelson  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
February  4,  1  860.  He  is  the  owner  and  builder 
of  one  of  the  finest  as  well  as  one  of  the  most 
picturesque  residences  to  be  found  in  this  part  of 
the  country. 

This  residence  is  located  in  Presidio  Terrace, 
San  Francisco,  and  combines  attractive  architec- 
tural features  gathered  from  all  over  the  world. 

Mr.  Nelson  is  president  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  Richmond  Masonic  Temple  Company. 
He  is  greatly  interested  in  motoring,  and  is  first 
president  of  the  San  Francisco  Motor  Club. 


G.  A.  Dubois 


GUY  A.  DUBOIS  is  a  San  Franciscan 
whose  name  stands  high  in  business 
circles.  He  is  president  of  the  Byron  Jack- 
son Iron  Works,  the  oldest  and  largest  pump 
manufactory  in  the  West.  Two  hundred  men 
are  employed  by  this  concern,  which  has  its 
factory  in  West  Berkeley  and  its  main  office 
at    357   Market  street,   San   Francisco. 

Mr.  Dubois  bought  out  Byron  Jackson  shortly 
after  the  fire  in  1  906.  He  re-equipped  the  fac- 
tory, and  since  then  has  built  the  multi-stage  pump 
installed  in  the  fireboats  Scannell  and  Sullivan. 
This  pump  has  a  development  of  I  ,800  horse- 
power, 700-foot  head,  and  1 ,800  revolutions. 
It  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  finest  pieces  of  mechan- 
ism of  its  kind  ever  built. 

Mr.  Dubois  was  born  in  New  York  in  1  868. 
He  belongs  to  the  old  Dubois  family,  dating 
back  to  pre-Revolutionary  times  in   New  York. 


Joseph  Vincent  de  Laveaga 


JOSEPH   VINCENT  DE   LAVEAGA, 
son    of    Miguel    and    Mane    Le    Briton    de 
Laveaga,   was   born   in   San    Francisco,    October 

12,    1879. 

He  graduated  from  the  University  of  California 
in  1900,  and  the  Hastings  Law  College  in  1902. 
He  is  one  of  the  rising  lawyers  of  San  Francisco, 
and  has  built  up  a  large  practice  among  the  best 
class  of  business  and  professional  men. 

He  IS  a  bon  vivant,  and  popular  with  all 
classes.  He  believes  in  good  government  and  is 
always  on  the  side  of  clean  citizenship. 


W.  S.  Davis 


W INFIELD  SCOTT  DAVIS  of  the 
insurance  firm  of  J.  B.  F.  Davis  & 
Son  is  a  native  of  San  Francisco.  His  father, 
the  founder  of  the  firm,  sailed  from  Bos- 
ton for  San  Francisco  in  1 849,  making  the 
trip  around  Cape  Horn.  He  was  a  carpenter 
and  engaged  in  the  rebuilding  of  the  city  after 
the  fires  of  1850-51.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  the  Vigilance  Committee  of  that  period,  and 
during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  was  chief  deputy 
under  Internal  Revenue  Collector  Caleb  T.  Clay. 
He  began  in  the  insurance  business  in  1865,  and 
his  son,  W.  S.  Davis,  took  up  the  same  work  in 
1  880.  W.  S.  Davis  is  also  president  of  the  Pa- 
cific Fire  Extinguisher  Co.  He  was  married  in 
I  885  to  Miss  Clara  M.  Boole,  daughter  of  Wm. 
A.  Boole,  a  prominent  shipbuilder.  He  has  two 
children,  a  daughter  who  is  the  wife  of  Ken- 
neth MacDonald,  the  architect,  and  a  son,  who  is 
attending  a  preparatory  school  in  Tarrytown, 
New  York.  Mr.  Davis  is  a  member  of  the  Pa- 
cific Union  and  Bohemian  Clubs  and  the  San 
Francisco  Art  Association. 


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One  of 

San  Francisco's 

Leading 

Tailors 


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George  A.  Dow 


GEORGE  A.  DOW,  of  the  Geo.  E. 
Dow  Pumping  Engine  Co.,  is  very  popu- 
lar among  the  business  men  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

He  was  born  in  San  Francisco,  April  1  7th, 
1874,  and  succeeded  his  father,  Geo.  E.  Dow, 
as  the  head  of  the  firm  of  that  name.  The  Geo. 
E.  Dow  Co.  is  one  of  the  largest  manufacturers 
of  pumping  machinery  in  this  country. 

Mr.  Dow  takes  very  little  interest  in  politics, 
being  a  man  of  business  almost  exclusively.  He 
is  president  of  the  George  E.  Dow  Estate  Co., 
arid  mterested  m  several  other  business  firms 
in  addition  to  the  pumping  machinery  concern. 


Philip  T.  Clay 


PHILIP  TUGGLE  CLAY,  vice-president 
of  the  firm  of  Sherman,  Clay  &  Co., 
music  dealers,  is  one  native  son  who  can 
boast  of  a  long  line  of  American  ancestors. 
His  great-grandfather  was  a  lieutenant  in  the 
Revolutionary  army,  and  his  grandfather,  true 
to  his  military  heritage,  was  a  captain  in 
the  War  of  1812.  Mr.  Clay  was  born  in 
San  Francisco  in  1878.  He  graduated  from  the 
University  of  California  in  I  90 1 ,  and  three  years 
later  was  married  to  Miss  Edna  Barry,  two  chil- 
dren, a  boy  and  a  girl,  having  been  born  to 
them.  Mr.  Clay  has  been  prominent  in  the  ac- 
tivities of  the  younger  element  of  San  Francisco's 
business  life.  He  was  chairman  of  the  famous 
Portola  Festival  Committee  of  1 909,  and  is  a 
director  of  the  Panama-Pacific  International  Ex- 
position Company. 


William  F.  Culberson 


KEEN  business  and  executive  ability,  as  well 
as  the  growth  of  the  automobile  industry, 
are  responsible  for  the  prominence  in  San  Fran- 
cisco commercial  circles  of  William  Franklin 
Culberson,  Pacific  Coast  representative  of  the 
Pierce-Arrow  Motor  Car  Company  of  Buffalo, 
New  York,  and  secretary  and  general  manager 
of  the  Pierce-Arrow  Sales  Co.  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. Mr.  Culberson  was  born  in  Pittsburg, 
Pa.,  February  2,  I  868,  his  parents  being  Sam- 
uel J.  and  Elizabeth  E.  Culberson.  He  has 
always  been  connected  with  mercantile  business. 


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William  Cluff 


WILLIAM  CLUFF,  president  of  the 
William  Cluff  Company,  wholesale 
grocers,  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  sub- 
stantial of  San  Francisco  business  men.  Mr. 
Cluff  is  of  Scotch  and  Welsh  descent,  but 
was  born  in  the  North  of  Ireland  in  1856. 
He  has  been  in  San  Francisco  for  many  years 
and  founded  the  business  which  now  bears  his 
name.  Mr.  Cluff  has  taken  a  deal  of  interest  in 
politics,  and  in  1  896  was  a  delegate  to  the  St. 
Louis  Republican  Convention  that  gave  President 
McKinley  his  first  nomination.  He  has  four 
daughters,  three  of  whom  are  married  to  promi- 
nent business  men,  the  other  being  single.  Mr. 
Cluff's  business  is  one  of  the  largest  in  its  line  on 
the  coast,  maintaining  a  branch  in  Oakland  as 
well  as  branches  in  other  important  cities. 


Howard  A.  Broughton 


HOWARD  ANTHONY  BROUGH- 
TON,  prominent  among  California  law- 
yers, was  born  at  Santa  Cruz  in  1 863. 
He  comes  from  early  Puritan  and  early 
Quaker  stock.  Among  his  relatives  are  Susan 
B.  Anthony,  George  T.  Anthony,  former 
governor  of  Kansas,  and  D.  R.  Anthony,  pioneer 
editor  of  the  Leavenworth  Times  and  famed  as 
an  abolitionist.  His  parents  were  pioneers  of  the 
early  'fifties  in  California,  his  father  being  a  news- 
paper editor  in  this  state  for  many  years. 

Mr.  Broughton  graduated  from  the  Hastings 
College  of  Law  in  1  888  and  was  admitted  to 
practice  the  same  year.  He  was  located  at  Po- 
mona, Cal.,  for  fifteen  years,  and  in  1900  was 
elected  from  his  district  to  the  State  Assembly. 
In  the  Assembly  he  fathered  the  "Broughton 
Law,"  under  which  all  franchises  are  sold  in  the 
municipalities  of  California.  In  1 904  he  was 
elected  to  the  State  Senate.  Having  become  in- 
terested in  several  mining  enterprises,  he  moved 
to  San  Francisco  in  1905,  and  now  has  offices  in 
the  Shreve  building.  He  is  president  and  director 
of  several  mining  and  oil  companies,  notably  the 
Purissima  Hills  Oil  Company  of  the  Santa  Maria 
field.  He  is  a  Republican  politically,  is  a  Past 
Exalted  Ruler  of  the  Pomona  Elks,  and  is  un- 
married. 


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Daniel  M.  Burns 


DANIEL  M.  BURNS,  once  a  recog- 
nized leader  in  the  politics  of  Califor- 
nia, is  now  engaged  extensively  in  mining 
and     farming.  He     was     born     in     Ripley, 

Tipah  County,  Mississippi,  in  August,  1845, 
his  parents,  William  and  Caroline  Griffin  Burns, 
both  being  natives  of  Tennessee.  His  early 
American  ancestors  were  Colonial  Virginians,  his 
grandfather  having  moved  to  Tennessee  in  I  806. 
Mr.  Burns  is  a  Republican  and  served  one  term 
as  Secretary  of  State.  His  wife  was  formerly 
Miss  Amelia  M.  Schindler,  and  they  have  one 
child,  a  daughter  thirty  years  of  age. 


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John  T.  Burns 


JOHN  T.  BURNS,  Superintendent  of 
Public  Buildings  for  the  City  of  San 
Francisco,  was  born  in  England,  April  1 2, 
1865.  He    was    educated    in    the    common 

schools  and  apprenticed  to  the  carpenters 
trade  at  the  age  of  1 4  years,  serving  seven 
years  at  his  apprenticeship.  When  he  was  2 1 
years  old  he  came  to  the  United  States,  locating 
first  in  Sandusky,  Ohio.  Then  in  succession  he 
lived  in  Cheyenne,  Wyoming,  and  Denver,  Colo- 
rado, coming  to  San  Francisco  in  1892.  He  was 
employed  by  the  city  as  a  carpenter  in  1  897  and 
had  charge  of  fire  department  building  repairs 
after  1 900  until  July,  1910,  when  he  was  ap- 
pointed to  his  present  position. 


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E.  P.  Brinegar 


EDGAR  PRESTON  BRINEGAR  is 
one  of  the  pioneer  automobile  dealers 
of  San  Francisco,  having  entered  the  busi- 
ness in  1 900.  Prior  to  coming  to  San 
Francisco,  he  was  for  eight  years  in  Boston 
in  the  passenger  traffic  department  of  the  Rock 
Island  Railroad  Company.  At  the  present  time 
Mr.  Brinegar  is  president  and  owner  of  the  Pio- 
neer Automobile  Company  of  San  Francisco. 
He  is  also  a  director  and  stockholder  of  the 
Chalmers  Motor  Company  of  Detroit,  Michigan, 
and  one  of  the  promoters  of  the  company. 


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Boutwell  Dunlap 


BOUTWELL  DUNLAP  was  bom  in 
Sacramento,  Cal.,  in  1877.  His  father, 
William  Dunlap,  and  maternal  grand-uncle, 
Stephen  A.  Boutwell,  were  territorial  pio- 
neers, owning  a  42,000-acre  ranch  in  the 
Sacramento  valley.  He  is  of  the  Dunlap 
family  of  the  South,  of  whom  were  Gen- 
eral George  Rogers  Clark  of  the  Revolution  and 
President  Sam  Houston  of  Texas. 

Mr.  Dunlap  is  a  lawyer.  He  is  a  graduate 
of  the  University  of  California,  and  a  post-grad- 
uate in  law  and  diplomacy  of  the  Catholic  Uni- 
versity of  America  at  Washington.  He  has  been 
Pacific  Consular  representative  of  Argentina,  be- 
ginning with  1  909.  In  I  904  he  was  nominated 
for  Congress  in  the  First  District,  but  declined. 
He  is  the  author  of  several  historical  and  economic 
studies,  and  has  written  much  upon  the  breeding 
of  racehorses,  being  an  authority.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  a  number  of  clubs  and  learned  societies, 
and  is  Honorary  Historian  of  the  Sacramento  So- 
ciety of  California  Pioneers. 


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Oliver  Ellsworth 


IT  HAS  been  said  that  California  numbers 
among  her  lawyers  more  really  brilliant  men 
than  any  other  State  m  the  Union. 

However  this  may  be,  none  will  deny  that  Oli- 
ver Ellsworth  is  one  of  the  most  brilliant  men  in 
his  profession. 

He  was  born  at  Mission  San  Jose,  Alameda 
Co.,  California,  April  7,  1867.  He  graduated 
from  the  University  of  California  in  1  888  with 
the  degree  of  A.  B. ;  and  in  1  893  from  the  Hast- 
ings Law  College,  where  was  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  L.  L.  B. 

In  Oakland  in  1907  he  was  elected  Councilor 
at  Large  on  the  Republican  ticket,  and  has  since 
been  re-elected  to  that  office.  Mr.  Ellsworth  se- 
cured the  largest  vote  of  the  entire  eleven  council- 
men  elected  on  both  occasions. 

He  IS  a  shrewd  business  man,  being  president 
of  a  number  of  oil  companies  and  director  in  two 
large  loan  associations. 


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Louis  Ferrari 


LOUIS  FERRARI  was  bom  in  San 
Francisco  in  the  year  1877  and  was 
educated  in  the  local  public  schools.  He 
prepared  for  college  in  the  Lowell  High 
School  and  in  1897  entered  Stanford  Uni- 
versity as  a  law  student  and  graduated  in  I  90 1 . 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  same  year  and 
immediately  began  to  practice  law  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

In  1903  he  was  appomted  assistant  in  the 
District  Attorney's  office  under  Lewis  F.  Bying- 
ton.  In  I  909  he  was  appomted  as  special  prose- 
cutor in  health  matters  by  William  H.  Langdon 
and  took  charge  of  the  prosecution  of  all  criminal 
cases  arising  from  Dr.  Blue's  plague  light  and  in 
the  enforcement  of  the  pure  food  laws. 

Mr.  Ferrari  is  a  member  of  the  Olympic  Club, 
the  Young  Men's  Institute  and  the  Native  Sons. 

He  was  married  on  October  12,  1910,  to 
Miss  Alice  Crowe  of  this  city. 

At  present  he  is  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
law,  with  offices  in  the  Mechanics  Savings  Bank 
building. 


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William  P.  Hubbard 


WILLIAM  P.  HUBBARD  has  beer, 
associated  in  the  practice  of  law  in 
California  with  some  of  the  most  celebrated 
legal    lights  of   the   State. 

He  was  born  at  Clinton,  North  Carolina,  in 
1872,  and  came  to  California  in  1895. 

He  received  his  education  at  the  Universities 
of  Alabama  and  North  Carolina.  He  first  com- 
menced the  practice  of  law  in  California  in  Fresno. 

He  was  associated  with  Judge  George  E. 
Church  for  a  time  at  Fresno,  after  which  he 
formed  partnership  with  M.  B.  Harris  of  Fresno, 
which  continued  till  1  900. 

He  has  been  associated  in  San  Francisco  with 
Chas.  E.  Naylor  and  C.  F.  Humphrey.  He 
took  part  in  Democratic  politics  while  in  Fresno, 
but  now  confines  himself  to  the  practice  of  law  ex- 
clusively. He  is  a  director  of  the  Southern  Club, 
trustee  of  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and 
a  member  of  the  San  Francisco  Bar  Association. 


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Nathan  H.  Frank 


NATHAN  H.  FRANK  was  bom  in  San 
Francisco,  June  3,  1858.  He  graduated 
from  the  University  of  California  in  1877 
and    the    Columbia    Law    College    in     1879. 

He  commenced  the  practice  of  law  in  San 
Francisco  in  1879  in  association  with  Whea- 
ton  &  Scrivner,  remammg  two  years.  In  1  88 1 
he  became  associated  with  Milton  Andros, 
and  shortly  thereafter  became  his  partner,  this 
partnership    continuing    till    1 900. 

Nathan  H.  Frank  is  now  associated  with 
hif  oldest  son,  Irving  H.  Frank.  His  practice 
has  been  more  generally  in  the  Federal  Courts, 
though  he  is  engaged  in  general  practice.  All 
hi.-  time  is  devoted  to  his  profession  and  his 
family. 


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Frederic  Winslow  Hall 


THERE  are  many  clever  corporation  attor- 
neys to  be  found  in  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, but  none  are  better  known  than  Frederic 
Winslow  Hall,  whose  offices  are  in  the  Crocker 
building,    San    Francisco. 

Mr.  Hall  was  born  at  Gorham,  Maine,  March 
20,  1  860.  His  ancestors  were  among  the  ear- 
liest New  England  settlers,  and  were  prominent 
m  colonial  affairs. 

In  politics  Mr.  Hall  is  a  Republican.  He  is 
an  officer  in  many  corporations  and  is  ex-president 
of  the  Bohemian  Club. 

He  graduated  in  1 880  from  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege, and  in  1  889  married  Miss  Maud  E.  Noyes 
of  Washington,  D.  C. 


29 


William  F.  Hofmann 


WILLIAM  F.  HOFMANN  has  been 
popular  as  an  orchestra  leader  and 
violinist  in  San  Francisco  since  1 904.  He 
was  born  on  August  12,  1870,  of  Ger- 
man parentage,  and  was  educated  in  music 
fiom  childhood.  During  his  career  he  was 
for  several  years  concert-meister  with  Walter 
Damrosch.  He  was  also  solo  violinist  and  con- 
cert-meister with  Madame  Melba  on  her  trans- 
continental tour,  and  acted  in  the  same  capacity 
with  Madame  Sembrich.  He  was  also  leader 
of  the  Hofmann  String  Quartette  and  Philhar- 
monic Club  of  New  York  City,  and  for  three 
years  was  head  of  the  violin  and  orchestra  de- 
partment of  the  School  of  Music,  University  of 
Michigan,  Ann  Arbor. 


30 


Tirey  L.  Ford 


TIREY  L.  FORD  was  bom  in  Mis- 
souri in  1857,  and  came  to  Califor- 
nia in  1877.  He  entered  the  law  offices 
of  Colonel  Park  Henshaw  at  Chico,  passed 
his  examinations  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar.  He  was  elected  District  Attorney  of  Sierra 
County  in  1888;  in  1892  went  to  the  Legisla- 
ture from  the  Third  Senatorial  District,  consist- 
ing of  Plumas,  Sierra  and  Nevada  Counties,  and 
was  thereafter  appointed  attorney  for  the  State 
Board  of  Harbor  Commissioners,  which  office 
he  held  until  elected  Attorney  General  of  the 
State  in  1  898.  In  1  902  he  resigned  the  office 
of  Attorney  General  in  order  to  become  general 
counsel  for  United  Railroads  of  San  Francisco, 
which  position  he  has  since  held. 

He  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  State 
Board  of  Prison  Directors  in  1905,  and  is  now 
the  president  of  the  board.  He  has  been  re- 
peatedly elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  Mechanics  Institute  of  San  Francisco. 

He  is  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Union,  Bohe- 
mian, Commonwealth,  Press,  Transportation, 
Merchants,  Amaurot  and  Southern  Clubs,  and 
s  a  Knight  Templar. 

His  favorite  diversion  is  golf. 


31 


William  Henry  Avery 


AMONG  the  prominent  steamship  men 
of  San  Francisco  stands  William 
Henry  Avery.  Born  in  New  York  City 
January  26,  1859,  his  attention  was 
early  called  to  the  mysteries  of  the 
briny  deep.  Graduating  from  the  New  York 
High  School  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  Mr.  Avery 
began  his  career  on  the  sea  and  for  sixteen  years 
served  in  nearly  every  capacity  on  board  sailing 
and  steam  vessels.  Today  he  holds  the  import- 
ant position  of  Assistant  General  Manager  of  the 
Toyo  Kisen  Kaisha  Steamship  Company. 

Mr.  Avery  is  also  a  home  man,  having  on 
February  14,  1891,  married  Jessie  Ashley  Law- 
rence. 


32 


EDWARD  H. 
AIGELTINGER 

Railroad 
Commissioner 


33 


Irving  Johnstone  Morse 


IRVING  J.  MORSE,  manager  of  the 
San  Francisco  branch  of  the  Loco- 
mobile Company  of  America,  is  one  of 
the  prominent  men  of  "automobile  row" 
in  this  city.  He  is  a  pioneer  of  the  auto- 
mobile industry,  having  previously  held  the 
position  of  manager  of  the  Philadelphia  branch 
and  superintendent  of  the  London  branch  of  the 
company  he  now  represents  in  this  city.  Mr. 
Morse  was  born  in  Peoria,  Illinois,  in  1870, 
coming  from  an  old  family  descended  from  the 
early  English  stock  of  Connecticut.  Mr.  Morse 
was  married  on  October  9,  I  906,  to  Miss  Fran- 
ces Elthea   Browning  of  WellsviHe,   New  \ork. 


34 


Richard  Watts  Barrett 


WHILE  in  college  Mr.  Richard  W.  Bar- 
rett was  one  of  the  most  popular  young 
men  among  the  whole  student  body  of  Stanford 
University,  from  which  he  graduated  in  1  904. 

He  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  Associated 
Students,  and  in  this  office  had  entire  charge  of 
the  financing  and  arranging  of  practically  all  of 
the  student  affairs. 

He  was  born  at  Edwards,  Miss.,  and  previous 
to  entering  Stanford  spent  three  years  at  the  Agri- 
cultural and   Mechanical   College  of   Mississippi. 

He  is  at  present  filling  the  office  of  Warrant 
and  Bond  Clerk  for  the  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco. 

He  IS  a  man  of  keen  business  ability  and  un- 
questioned integrity,  and  one  of  those  individuals 
for  whom  the  future  can  hold  nothing  but  suc- 
cess. 


BOND  /INO  V/l^RANT 


35 


Frank  H.  Johnson 


WHEN  the  history  of  aviation  is  written  in 
that  day  to  come  when  the  aeroplane  is  as 
common  as  the  automobile,  the  name  of  Col. 
Prank  Hansford  Johnson  will  be  set  down  as  one 
of  its  pioneers  in  the  West.  Colonel  Johnson  is 
the  head  of  the  Frank  H.  Johnson  Mercantile 
Co.,  but  writes  down  his  profession  as  "aviator." 
He  IS  agent  for  the  Curtiss  Aeroplane  Co.,  and 
has  the  distinction  of  having  owned  the  first  auto- 
mobile ever  m  California  and  much  more  recently 
of  having  owned  the  first  aeroplane  here.  He  flew 
with  Curtiss  and  Paulhan  at  the  great  aviation 
meet  in  Los  Angeles  in  January,  1910.  He 
has  also  made  flights  at  Marysville,  Chico,  Stock- 
ton, Woodland,  Salinas,  Alameda,  Hanford, 
Coalinga,  Merced  and  San  Jose.  Colonel  John- 
son is  a  Republican,  and  is  lieutenant  colonel  on 
the  staff  of  the  Commander  in  Chief  of  the  Cali- 
fornia National  Guard.  He  is  married  and  has 
one  child.  He  is  a  native  son,  having  been 
born  in  this  city  in  I  885.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Olympic  and  Pacific  Aero  Clubs. 


36 


H.  L.  A.  Bates 


HL.  A.  BATES  was  born  in  Cuddalore, 
•  India,  on  October  20,  1860.  He  is  a 
son  of  General  Charles  Edward  Bates,  Madras* 
Staff  Corps.  Mr.  Bates  left  India  when  very 
young,  and  was  educated  in  Switzerland  and 
E.ngland.  As  a  young  man  he  became  a  midship- 
man in  the  English  Mercantile  Marine,  having 
been  educated  for  such  on  the  school  frigate 
"Conway,"  at  Liverpool,  and  on  graduation  was 
commissioned  a  midshipman  in  the  Royal  Naval 
Reserve. 

Mr.  Bates  came  to  the  United  States  in  1  880 
and  resided  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  Billings, 
Mont.,  before  coming  to  San  Francisco,  in  1889. 
He  has  been  continuously  engaged  in  hre  insur- 
ance since  1  881  ,  and  is  the  general  agent  of  The 
Shawnee  Fire  Insurance  Company  of  Topeka, 
Kan.,  for  its  Pacific  department,  comprising  the 
territory  west  of  the  Rocky  Mountains. 

During  Mr.  Bates'  residence  in  Montana  he 
was  City  Treasurer  of  the  city  of  Billings,  and 
United  States  Commissioner.  He  is  the  father 
of  five  sons,  and  resides  in  Alameda.  He  was 
married  in  I  885  to  Miss  R.  Helen  Rixon,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Rixon,  Esq.,  of  Ontario,  Canada. 


37 


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L.  &  M.  Alexander 


BEGINNING  at  the  very  bottom  of  the  ladder  of  business,  Leo  E.  Alexander  and  Michael 
S.  Alexander  have  become  leaders  among  the  typew^riter  dealers  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 
Leo  began  his  career  as  a  clerk  and  Michael  as  a  shorthand  reporter.  They  had  very  little 
capital  when  they  first  started  their  typewriter  agency,  but  their  progress  into  one  of  the  sub- 
stantial firms  of  the  city  has  been  rapid.  They  originally  introduced  the  Smith-Premier  type- 
writer on  the  Pacific  Coast,  but  are  now  agents  for  the  L.  C.  Smith  machine.  They  now  stand 
among  ^he  largest  exclusive  typewriter  dealers  in  the  United  States,  having  branch  offices  at 
Los  Angeles,  Portland,  Seattle  and  Spokane,  in  addition  to  their  main  office  at  5 1 2  Market 
street,  San  Francisco. 


38 


p.  J.  Kelleher 


THERE  is  no  better  known  Irishman  in  San 
Francisco  than  P.  J.  Kelleher,  "The  Irish 
Tailor."  He  left  County  Kerry,  Ireland,  23 
years  ago,  going  first  to  Philadelphia,  thence 
to  Chicago,  where  he  remained  a  year,  and  com- 
ing thence  to  San  Francisco.  He  was  married 
when  he  was  25  years  old,  is  now  43,  and  has 
nine  children.  He  is  associated  with  George 
A.  Browne  in  the  firm  of  Kelleher  &  Browne, 
The  Irish  Tailors. 

Mr.  Kelleher  is  the  champion  Gaelic  dancer 
of  the  Pacific  Coast,  and  has  been  president  of 
the  Original  Gaelic  Dancing  Club  for  ten  years. 
He  IS  active  in  every  Irish  movement  tending  to 
benefit  his  native  land,  and  is  also  prominent 
m  many  fraternal  organizations.  Politically  he 
is  a  Democrat,  but  at  the  last  election  was  the 
Union  Labor  Party's  nominee  for  Public  Ad- 
ministrator. He  was  defeated  by  "Billy"  Hynes 
by  a  small   majority. 


39 


H.  L.  Metcalf 


HL.  METCALF,  one  of  the  substantial 
•  men  in  railroad  circles  of  San  Francisco 
and  a  man  who  is  keepmg  step  with  the  general 
march  of  advancement,  was  born  in  the  State 
of  New  York  in  1877.  He  did  not  stay  long 
ir  his  native  state,  but  migrated  west  and  grad- 
u.ited  from  the  University  of  Nebraska. 

He  became  active  in  railroad  circles  about 
twelve  years  ago,  being  connected  with  the  legal 
department  of  the  Southern  Pacific.  Later  he 
served  in  the  executive  department  of  the  Pull- 
man Car  Works.  Mr.  Metcalf  is  now  Chief 
Clerk  to  Vice-President  and  General  Manager 
E.  E.  Calvin,  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company. 


40 


George  B.  Keane 


GEORGE  B.  KEANE  is  one  of  the  most 
prominent  as  well  as  one  of  the  most  popu- 
lar young  men  takmg  an  active  part  in  San 
Francisco's  political  life.  He  was  born  in  San 
Fiancisco,  February  26,  1875,  his  father  being 
George  B.  Keane,  a  native  of  Ireland,  who  came 
to  this  city  in  1 850.  The  elder  Keane  was 
the  fourth  graduate  from  the  Santa  Clara 
(Jesuit)  College,  and  later  was  instructor  in 
chemistry  in  Toland  Medical  College  at  the 
time  it  became  the  medical  department  of  the 
University  of  California.  Mr.  Keane  is  an  attor- 
ney, being  a  graduate  of  the  Hastings  College 
of  Law  with  the  class  of  1895.  He  was  sec- 
retary to  the  mayor  and  clerk  of  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  from  1 902  to  1 909,  when  he  was 
elected  State  Senator  from  the  Twenty-third  Dis- 
trict, San  Francisco.  He  has  affiliated  politically 
with   the   Republican   and  Union   Labor  parties. 


41 


John  O.  Gantner 


BORN  in  California  in  1 868,  of  pioneer 
parents,  John  O.  Gantner  has  long  been 
identified  with  the  business  life  of  his  native  city. 
He  IS  president  of  the  Gantner  &  Mattern  Com- 
pany, manufacturers,  retailers  and  wholesalers  of 
knitted  goods,  underwear  and  hosiery.  Mr. 
Gantner  has  been  in  the  knitting  business  all  his 
life,  and  comes  from  a  family  of  knitters.  The 
company  of  which  he  is  the  present  head  has 
been  in  existence  since  1 900.  The  Gantner  & 
Mattern  Company  employs  about  275  San  Fran- 
ciscans. Its  knitted  goods  are  sold  m  almost 
every  first-class  furnishing  goods  and  department 
store  from  San  Francisco  to  Chicago.  Its  retail 
store  at  Grant  avenue  and  Post  street  is  one  of 
the  most  unique  as  well  as  one  of  the  finest  spe- 
cialty shops  in  America. 


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42 


Pierre  Alexander  Bergerot 


PIERRE  ALEXANDER  BERGEROT, 
general  counsel  for  the  French  American 
Bank  of  San  Francisco,  is  an  attorney  who  en- 
joys a  wide  practice  and  an  acquaintance  that 
extends  over  practically  the  whole  of  California. 
He  was  born  in  San  Francisco  on  February  4, 
1867,  but  as  befitted  his  French  ancestry,  was 
educated  at  the  University  of  France,  from  which 
he  was  graduated  in  I  889.  Returning  to  San 
Francisco,  he  entered  the  Hastings  College  of 
Law,  graduating  from  that  well  known  institu- 
tion in  I  892  and  immediately  beginning  practice 
here. 

He  IS  one  of  the  most  influential  men  among 
the  French  residents  of  San  Francisco.  He  was 
president  of  the  Board  of  Education  in  1899, 
and  has  been  chairman  of  congressional  and 
municipal  conventions  on  various  occasions.  Mr. 
Bergerot  was  married  in  I  897  to  Miss  Amanda 
Dupuy,  and  has  two  children,  a  boy  and  a  girl. 


43 


Frederic  W.  Eaton 


FREDERIC  WARD  EATON,  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  Pacific  States  Tele- 
phone Company,  is  the  son  of  a  Cahfornia  "forty- 
niner.  "  His  parents  were  both  New  Englanders, 
ai:d  he  himself  was  born  in  Boston  m  1 844. 
His  father  came  to  San  Francisco  in  1 849, 
and  his  mother  followed  with  her  three  children 
in  1  852.  Mr.  Eaton  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  here  and  graduated  from  the  City 
College  in  I860.  He  was  in  the  drug  business 
for  a  few  years,  then  went  to  Idaho,  returning 
in  two  years  to  go  into  the  tobacco  business 
here.  From  1872  to  1889  he  was  in  the  grain 
and  freighting  business,  entering  the  service  of 
the  telephone  company  in  1889.  From  1875 
lo  I  877  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Super- 
visors. He  was  married  in  1 869  to  Rose  L. 
Miller.      He  has  one  living  son. 


44 


A.  J.  BARNETT 


O  PIT  ICE 


43 


Joseph  H.  Kirk 


BORN  in  Chicago  in  1859,  Joseph  H. 
Kirk  just  missed  being  a  native  son,  for 
he  was  brought  to  Marin  County,  California, 
when  he  was  but  three  months  old,  and  spenl 
his  boyhood  ihere.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1880.  In  January,  1887,  he  was  ap- 
pointed Assistant  District  Attorney  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  later  became  Acting  District  Attorney. 
During  his  term  as  public  prosecutor  he  took 
an  active  part  in  the  famous  trials  of  Alexander 
Goldenson,  charged  with  murder ;  John  A.  Din- 
ning, accused  of  causing  the  mysterious  death 
of  Henry  Benhayon,  and  Seneca  Swahn,  who 
was  found  guilty  of  the  larceny  of  the  McDonald 
jewels.  Since  May,  1 888,  Mr.  Kirk  has  been 
chief  counsel  for  the  Board  of  Trade.  He  issued 
the  first  call  for  the  meeting  of  the  wholesale 
merchants  after  the  fire  of  I  906  and  was  largely 
instrumental  in  locating  sites  for  their  immediate 
resumption  of  business.  He  was  married  Sep- 
t?mber  I  ,  1 888,  to  Josephine  Louise  Miller, 
youngest  daughter  of  James  Miller  of  Miller  Hall, 
San    Mateo,    California. 


46 


Leo  G.  Kaufman 


LEO  G.  KAUFMAN  has  come  into  promi- 
nence in  the  ranks  of  realty  dealers  in  recent 
years,  the  firm  of  Leo  G.  Kaufman  &  Co.  now 
standing  among  the  foremost  in  the  city.  This 
!S  due  in  large  measure  to  the  work  done  by  Mr. 
Kaufman  since  the  big  fire,  he  having  been  in- 
strumental in  negotiating  2 1 6  leases  during  the 
period  of  re-establishing  the  downtown  business 
district. 

He  has  also  organized  a  number  of  invest- 
ment companies,  some  of  which  have  bought 
pioperties  and  erected  substantial  buildings,  while 
others  have  taken  fifty-year  leases  on  ground  on 
which  they  have  built.  In  several  of  these  Mr. 
Kaufman  has  invested  his  own  capital,  being  in- 
terested chiefly  in   Market  street  properties. 

Before  coming  to  San  Francisco  Mr.  Kauf- 
man was  a  prominent  citizen  of  Bellingham, 
Washington,  where  he  was  president  of  the  Mer- 
chants' Association.  He  also  operated  in  real 
estate  in  Spokane,  Washington.  He  is  a  staunch 
Republican,  and  is  41  years  old.  His  parents, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  Kaufman,  reside  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. 


47 


W.  A.  Bissell 


WILLIAM  AMBROSE  BISSELL,  one 
of  the  active  and  prominent  railroad  offi- 
cials of  the  Pacific  Coast,  holds  the  responsible 
position  of  assistant  traffic  manager  of  the  Santa 
Fe  system.  He  was  born  in  Lyons,  Wayne 
County,  New  York,  his  father,  W.  H.  A.  Bis- 
sell, having  been  Episcopal  Bishop  of  Vermont 
from  1863  up  to  his  death  in  1893.  The  sub- 
ject of  our  sketch  came  to  the  Pacific  Coast  in 
May,  1  868.  Ten  years  later  he  was  married 
al  Sacramento  to  Miss  Cora  A.  Mesick,  two 
sons  being  born  to  them,  William  H.  and  Daniel 
R.  Bissell.  Besides  his  position  with  the  Santa 
Fe,  Mr.  Bissell  is  president  of  the  Livermore 
Water  and  Power  Co.  and  vice  president  of  the 
Richmond  Light  and  Power  Co.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Pacific  Union,  Claremont  Country, 
Athenian  and  Encinal  clubs  and  the  California 
cl«.'b   of   Los   Angeles. 


48 


Charles  J.  Hamilton 


CHARLES  J.  HAMILTON,  undersheriff 
of  San  Francisco,  was  born  in  his  home 
city  on  April  4,  1 882.  His  parents,  Samuel 
and  Mary  Hamilton,  were  natives  of  Ireland. 
Mr.  Hamilton  graduated  from  Sacred  Heart 
College  in  1902,  and  was  married  on  May  16, 
1906,  to  Miss  Rosalie  Hollohan.  Two  chil- 
dren have  been  born  to  them,  both  daughters, 
Dorothy  and  Marian.  Mr.  Hamilton  is  a  mem- 
ber  of   the    Union    Labor    Party. 


49 


J.  BARTH 


50 


Llewellyn  B.  Dutton 


FEW  men  have  had  more  to  do  with  the 
upbuilding  of  San  Francisco  than  Llewellyn 
B.  Dutton.  His  successful  work  m  the  recon- 
struction of  a  great  many  of  the  city's  prominent 
buildings  has  contributed  in  a  large  measure  to 
the  present  up-to-date  appearance  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

Llewellyn  B.  Dutton  was  born  at  Elma,  N. 
Y.,  Feb.  27,  I860.  His  father  and  mother 
were  descendants  of  early  English  colonists. 

At  the  age  of  2 1 ,  Mr.  Dutton  went  to  Chi- 
cago to  study  architecture  under  W.  L.  B. 
Jenny,   and  afterwards  with  Cobb  &  Frost. 

He  was  later  sent  by  D.  M.  Burnham  &  Co. 
to  open  an  office  for  them  in  San  Francisco.  He 
put  up  the  Merchants  Exchange  and  Chronicle 
buildings. 

After  the  big  fire  of  I  906  he  reconstructed  the 
Crocker  Bank  building,  built  the  Metropolitan 
Trust  &  Savings  Bank,  the  Mechanics  Savings 
Bank,  and  many  other  large  buildings  in  and 
around  the  city. 


Bernard  J.  Joseph 


BERNARD  J.  JOSEPH  Is  one  of  San  Fran- 
cisco's leading  young  architects.  He  was 
born  in  this  city  in  February,  1875.  After  at- 
tending the  pubhc  schools  he  obtained  his  pro- 
fessional education,  or  rather  the  beginning  of  it, 
at  the  Technical  College  of  San  Francisco. 

He  was  formerly  employed  by  J.  B.  Kraft 
and  by  Tharp  &  Holmes,  and  to  Mr.  Kraft  he 
gives  the  credit  for  most  of  his  technical  knowl- 
edge. 

He  was  associated  with  G.  Albert  Landsburgh 
in  the  construction  of  the  Orpheum  Theatre,  the 
Gunst  building,  and  a  number  of  other  big  down- 
town structures.  He  has  done  a  vast  amount  of 
architectural  work  in  San  Francisco. 


52 


Harold  Louderback 


THE  younger  generation  of  western  attorneys 
includes  many  native  Californians,  who  have 
risen  to  considerable  prominence.  Among  these 
r-  Harold  Louderback,  who  was  born  in  San 
P  rancisco  on  January  30,  1  88  1 . 

Mr.  Louderback's  legal  mind  is  a  heritage, 
his  father,  who  was  a  pioneer  of  '49,  having 
been  a  judge  in  San  Francisco  back  in  the  '60's. 
His  mother,  who  before  her  marriage  was  Miss 
Frances  Carohne  Smith,  was  herself  a  native  of 
San  Francisco,  and  on  both  sides  of  his  family 
Mr.  Louderback  traces  his  ancestry  back  to 
American  colony  the  days  before  the  Revolution. 

Graduating  from  the  University  of  Nevada  in 
1905,  Mr.  Louderback  went  to  Harvard,  where 
he  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws  in 
1  908,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Boston,  Mass., 
in  the  same  year. 

He  at  once  came  to  California  to  practice. 
Fit.  IS  a  Republican  in  politics  and  is  first  lieuten- 
ant of  the  Fourth  Company,  Coast  Artillery 
Corps,  National  Guard  of  California. 


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Oscar  Hocks 


OSCAR  HOCKS,  who  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  of  San  Francisco  has 
occupied  a  promment  place  in  politics,  was  born 
in  Germany  on  September  20,  I  870.  He  is  a  son 
of  Wilhelm  Hocks  and  Emma  Gibsen,  both  of 
whom  were  born  \n  his  own  native  town  of 
Aachen.  Mr.  Hocks  was  elected  a  Supervisor 
first  in  1  904,  his  first  term  expiring  in  1  905.  He 
was  re-elected  in  1908,  and  again  in  1910,  and 
still  holds  the  position.  Politically  he  is  a  Demo- 
crat. Mr.  Hocks  is  a  merchant  by  profession, 
and  is  engaged  in  the  wholesale  liquor  trade.  He 
graduated  from  college  in  Germany  in  1887,  and 
was  married  on  September  7,   I  899. 


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Dr.  C.  R.  Bricca 


^ONSTANTINE  RAPHAEL  BRICCA, 

V>  widely  known  as  an  eye,  ear,  nose  and 
throat  specialist,  was  born  in  San  Francisco  in 
1  880.  He  is  a  graduate  of  St.  Ignatius  College 
with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts,  and  also  of 
tli.e  medical  department  of  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia. In  his  special  line  of  practice  he  has  had 
extensive  experience  both  in  the  East  and  in  Eu- 
rope, having  studied  with  the  master  minds  of  this 
particular  branch  of  the  medical  profession. 

Dr.  Bricca  was  chief  medical  inspector  of  the 
San  Francisco  public  schools  during  the  last  ad- 
ministration, having  maugurated  a  system  of  med- 
ical inspection  and  examination  never  before 
known  in  public  school  work.  He  resigned  in 
the  latter  part  of  1909.  Dr.  Bricca's  activities 
have  not  been  confined  to  his  profession.  He 
i;.  president  of  the  Harlow-Bricca  Company,  an 
exclusive  mail  order  house  doing  an  extensive 
business.      He  is  married  and  has  a   familv. 


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56 


Daniel  M.  Hanlon 


SON  of  one  of  the  early  pioneer  shipbuilders 
of  California,  Daniel  M.  Hanlon  was  born 
in  San  Francisco,  June  4,    1  868. 

Mr.  Hanlon  is  vice-president  and  man- 
ager of  the  Mark  Sheldon  Company,  prominent 
real  estate  owners  of  San  Francisco.  His  com- 
pany built  the  first  brick  building  erected  in  San 
Francisco  after  the  fire  of  1 906.  This  stands 
on  the  old  location  at  the  corner  of  Kearny 
and  Commercial  streets  that  all  old  Californians 
will  remember  as  the  old  I  X  L  corner. 

The  Mark  Sheldon  Company  started  the  con- 
struction of  the  Sheldon  building  in  the  late  fall 
of  1  906  and  had  it  completed  and  occupied  by 
the  early  part  of  1  908.  Mr.  Hanlon  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Family  and  the  Press  clubs  of  San 
Francisco. 


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J.  Emmet  Hayden 


J  EMMET  HAYDEN  is  a  member  of  the 
•  firm  of  Kilborn  &  Hayden,  proprietors  of 
the  Ferry  Cafe,  one  of  the  first  restaurants  to 
be  estabhshed  in  San  Francisco  followmg  the 
great  fire.  He  was  born  m  San  Francisco  on 
July  1  4,  I  869,  and  has  always  been  a  resident 
of  this  city. 

While  he  has  been  an  active  and  successful 
busmess  man,  his  activities  have  not  all  been 
confined  to  business  channels.  He  is  a  member 
of  Tamalpais  Parlor  of  the  Native  Sons  of  the 
Golden  West,  and  has  been  prominent  in  the 
affairs  of  the  order  for  many  years. 

He  received  his  education  at  the  College 
of  the  Sacred  Heart,  and  was  graduated  from 
that  institution  in    1  889. 

Mr.  Hayden  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  of  the  City  and  County  of  San 
Francisco. 


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John  Hermann 


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JOHN  HERMANN,  president  of  the  Her- 
mann Safe  Company,  has  for  years  figured 
as  one  of  the  progressive,  substantial  business 
men  of  San  Francisco.  Born  in  Hermannstadt, 
Austria,  in  1 85  7,  he  finished  the  prescribed 
high  school  course,  learned  his  trade,  and  left  his 
native  city  in  1874.  He  spent  several  years  in 
the  leading  safe  and  vault  factories  of  Europe, 
coming  to  the  United  States  in  1  882  and  visit- 
ing the  big  Eastern  factories.  He  came  to  San 
Fiancisco  in  1883,  and  in  1889  started  his 
present  business  in  an  unpretentious  way  in  a 
small  shop  on  Commercial  street.  Practical 
knowledge,  persistency,  hard  work  and  honest 
business  methods  built  up  for  him  the  largest 
safe    and    vault    factory    on    the    Pacific    Coast. 

Hermann  safes  and  vaults  are  installed  in  the  newpostoffice,  the  United  States  custom  house,  the 
Mint,  the  Appraisers' building,  the  Parrott  Estate.  Alaska  Commercial  and  many  other  buildings, 
besides  many  banks,  not  only  in  San  Francisco  but  all  over  the  state.  Fhey  have  also  been  in- 
stalled in  the  Portland  postofnce  and  customhouse,  and  in  the  postoffices  of  Oakland  and 
Los  Angeles. 

Mr.  Hermann  is  president  of  the  German  American  League  of  California,  being  recently 
elected  for  a  fifth  term.  This  is  the  highest  office  that  a  German-American  can  be  honored  with 
in  social  and  fraternal  life.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Two  Hundred  Ways  and  Means 
Committee  for  the  Panama-Pacific  Exposition  in  San  Francisco  in    1915. 


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Bozo   Mitrov   Gopcevic 


AN  Austrian  by  birth,  a  Californian  by 
adoption,  a  progressive,  public-spirited  citi- 
zen, who  behaves  in  the  present  and  has  faith 
in  the  future  of  San  Francisco — this  is  Bozo 
Mitrov  Gopcevic,   capitahst. 

Born  at  Orahovac,  Austria,  November  1  5, 
1854,  he  came  to  San  Francisco  in   1877. 

As  proprietor  of  the  Servian  American,  which 
was  the  first  newspaper  of  its  type  ever  pubhshed 
outside  of  Europe,  he  made  a  successful  record 
for    over    twelve    years. 

He  was  appointed  to  a  position  in  the  United 
States  Mint  in  San  Francisco  by  President  Har- 
rij-on.  He  also  held  a  responsible  position  in 
tlie  United  States  Land  Office. 

Mr.  Gopcevic  has  always  been  a  staunch  Re- 
publican supporter.  He  stands  to-day  a  fine 
example  of  the  self-made  man. 


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William  J.   Gorham 


WILLIAM  J.  GORHAM.  president  and 
manager  of  the  Gorham  Rubber  Com- 
pany, operatmg  stores  m  San  Francisco,  Seattle, 
Spokane,  Los  Angeles,  Portland  and  Oakland, 
started  in  the  rubber  business  in  the  Goodyear 
Rubber  Company's  factory  when  he  left  school 
some  30  years  ago.  In  two  years'  time  he  became 
superintendent  of  the  factory,  holding  the  posi- 
tion for  sixteen  years,  when  he  started  his  pres- 
ent business  in  the  old  J.  Hendy  building,  in  a 
little  20x40  room,  with  a  boy  whom  he  paid 
$3  weekly  as  his  sole  assistant.  That  boy  now 
holds  one  of  the  most  responsible  positions  with 
the  firm.  Mr.  Gorham  started  business  with 
$2,000  of  borrowed  capital,  which  he  paid  back 
during  his  first  year.  The  concern's  last  inven- 
tory showed  assets  of  more  than  $5,800,000. 
The  main  office  and  store  is  located  at  No.  56 
Fremont  street,  San  Francisco,  and  is  one  of  the 
largest  rubber  establishments  in  the  country. 


61 


Samuel   G.    McMeen 


SAMUEL  G.  McMEEN  is  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  McMeen  &  Miller,  electrical  engi- 
neers of  Chicago  and  San  Francisco,  making  his 
home  in  the  latter  city.  He  designed  and  con- 
stiucted  the  telephone  system  of  the  Bay  Cities 
Home  Telephone  Company,  all  new  property 
built  since  the  fire  of  1  906.  He  holds  the  posi- 
tion of  vice-president  and  consulting  engineer 
for  the  Bay  Cities  Home  Telephone  Company, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of 
Electrical  Engineers,  and  a  member  of  the 
Western  Society  of  Engineers.  He  obtained 
his  technical  training  at  Purdue  University.  Mr. 
McMeen  says  his  age  is  one  secret  that  he  refuses 
to  reveal,  but  he  confesses  to  having  a  grand- 
daughter. He  says  he  expects  to  live  in  San 
Fiancisco  until  1986,  or  longer,  and  to  pursue 
in  the  meantime  his  two  hobbies,  fishing  and  the 
telephone  business. 


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JUDGE  F.  P.  BULL 


63 


Louis   Metzger 


THE  name  of  Louis  Metzger  is  one  that  has 
long    been    associated    with    active    business 

and   political   life  in   California.      Born   in   New 

\ork   on    December    28,    1856,    Mr.    Metzger 

came    to    California    in     1 866,    graduating    from 

the   Lincoln   Grammar  School   of  San   Francisco 

in    1870.       For   seven    years   he   worked    in    the 

paper    and    stationery    business,    then    went    into 

business    for   himself,    selling   out    in    1 884    and 

entering    a    co-partnership    under    the    firm    name 

of  Metzger  &  Franklin,  general  brokers. 

For  26  years  Mr.   Metzger  was  chairman  of 

the    Board    of    Trustees    of    the    Iroquois    Club. 
Iwice   he   represented   California   in   Democratic 

National    conventions,    and    he   was   many    times  delegate  to  state  conventions.      He  has  been  in- 
terested in   mining   development   in   Nevada,    besides    being    concerned    with    several     mercantile 

and    manufacturing    concerns    in    San    Francisco.  Mr.  Metzger  lost  his  sight  in  a  runaway  accident 

m    1888.      He  has  always   taken   an   interest  in  charitable  and  fraternal  organizations. 


64 


Charles  Mortimer  Belshaw 


CHARLES  MORTIMER  BELSHAW, 
thrice  elected  to  the  Assembly  Chamber 
of  the  California  Legislature,  and  twice  to  the 
Senate  (1895-1909)  is  one  of  the  big  men 
of  the  state  of  California.  He  was  born  at  Fid- 
dletown,    Amador    County,    Cal.,    March      H, 

186L 

His  father  and  mother  were  both  natives  of 
New  York  State,  and  come  of  a  long  line  of  old 
time  New  England  stock.  Senator  Belshaw 
has  always  been  a  staunch  Republican,  and 
was  elected  to  the  Senate  on  the  Republican 
ticket. 

He  graduated  from  Harvard  University  in 
1  883,  and  married  Miriam  E.  White  the  same 
year. 

He  has  extensive  business  interests  in  Califor- 
nia, chiefly  in  general  merchandising  and  mining. 


65 


F.  W.  McNear 


THE  name  of  McNear  is  one  widely  known 
in  California.  Fred  William  McNear, 
son  of  George  W.  McNear  and  A.  M. 
Church  McNear,  was  born  in  San  Francisco  in 
1870.  His  parents  were  both  natives  of  Maine, 
and  the  family  has  been  known  in  New  England 
for  upwards  of  two  centuries.  Mr.  McNear 
graduated  from  the  University  of  California  in 
1 889  as  a  Bachelor  of  Letters.  He  obtained 
an  A.  B.  degree  at  Harvard  in  1 89 1 ,  and  a 
Bachelor  of  Laws  degree  from  the  same  uni- 
versity in  1  894.  He  has  since  been  a  practic- 
ing attorney  in  San  Francisco,  and  is  now  prom- 
iiiCnt  in  the  oil  producing  field.  He  was  mar- 
ried in  1 902  to  Miss  Georgina  Hopkins,  and 
has  two  children,  Edward  Hopkins  McNear  and 
Fred  William  McNear,  Jr. 


66 


Samuel  A.  Moss 


SAMUEL  ARTHUR  MOSS  was  born  in 
New  Berlin,  Central  New  York,  July  2, 
1867.  His  parents  were  Horace  O.  Moss  and 
Isabel  A.  Moss,  nee  White.  In  1874  the  fam- 
ily came  to  California  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama,  and  traveled  in  California  the  following 
two  years.  Soon  after  that  they  went  to  Europe 
and  traveled  there  for  the  following  five  years. 
Returning  to  this  country,  Mr.  Moss  entered  St. 
John's  School,  near  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
prepared  for  college.  From  there  he  entered  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  bemg  a 
member  of  the  Class  of  '90.  In  July,  1 890, 
he  married  Edith  Estelle  Adams,  of  Montpelier, 
Vermont.  They  have  one  child,  Horace  W. 
Moss,  born  February   14,    1898. 

Mr.  Moss  IS  mterested  m  gold  dredging,  be- 
ing president  of  the  Calaveras  Dredging  Com- 
pany, and  is  engaged  in  numerous  mining  and 
other  enterprises  in  California  and  in  Mexico, 
and  is  a  member  of  Bohemian,  University  and 
Union   League  Clubs. 


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Clarence  M.  Smith 


Mutual  Life  for  Northern  California.  Five 
agent  of  this  company  for  the  state  of  California, 
ship  of  Smith,  Thomas  &  Thomas.  Under  the 
em  Mutual  Life  shows  a  gain  in  business  from 
$6,915,000  to  $29,264,297. 

Mr.    Smith    is    a    married    man    and    has    one 


PROMINENT  among  the  insurance  men  of 
the  Coast  who  have  contributed  to  the  de- 
velopment of  San  Francisco,  stands  Clarence  M. 
Smith,  of  the  firm  of  Smith,  Thomas  &  Thomas, 
general  agents  for  the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life. 

Mr.  Smith  was  born  August  5,  1854,  in 
Wisconsin,  where  he  spent  his  early  life  on  the 
farm.  Of  English,  Scotch,  Irish  and  French 
ancestry,  Mr.  Smith  was  endowed  with  the  in- 
herent old  world  thrift,  and  upon  attaining  his 
majority  had  accumulated  the  tidy  sum  of 
$K405  with  which  to  begin  business  life. 

On  October  24,  1885,  he  arrived  in  Cali- 
fornia, and  on  June  I  of  the  following  year 
was  made  general  agent  of  the  Northwestern 
years  later  he  succeeded  to  the  office  of  general 
and  on  July  I ,  I  897,  he  formed  the  firm  partner- 
able  management  of  Mr.  Smith  the  Northwest- 
January    I,    1897,  to  January   1,    1910,  of  from 

daughter,   Margaret. 


63 


Joseph  H.  Scott 


JOSEPH  H.  SCOTT  has  been  prominent  in 
the  pubhc  hfe  of  San  Francisco  for  many 
years.  Born  in  the  City  by  the  Golden  Gate 
on  March  16,  1862,  he  received  his  education 
in  the  public  schools.  Republican  in  politics, 
he  has  always  enjoyed  the  support  of  the  vot- 
ers of  other  parties.  He  was  elected  tax  col- 
lector of  San  Francisco  in  1  900  as  the  nominee 
of  the  Regular  Republican,  Citizens'  Repub- 
lican and  People's  Party,  serving  two  years. 
On  May  7,  1905,  he  was  appointed  by  the 
mayor  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  ending  January, 
1  906.  On  November  6,  I  906,  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Equalization  for 
the  First  District  as  the  nominee  of  the  Repub- 
lican and  Union   Labor  parties. 


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Henry  J.  Small 


HENRY  J.  SMALL,  general  superintendent 
of  motive  power  and  machinery  for  the 
Southern  Pacific  Company,  holds  this  high  posi- 
tion as  the  result  of  a  lifetime  of  industrious  and 
conscientious  labor  in  the  railroad  service.  Born 
in  Coburg,  Ontario,  November  15,  1849,  Mr. 
Small  was  educated  in  the  Normal  School  at 
Toronto,  entering  the  railway  service  in  1 868 
ar.  a  machinist  for  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern. 
Then  with  positions  constantly  growing  m  re- 
sponsibility and  importance,  he  was  with  the 
Kansas  Pacific,  the  Northern  Pacific,  the  To- 
ledo, Wabash  and  Western,  the  International 
and  Great  Northern,  the  Galveston,  Houston  & 
bienderson,  the  Texas  &  Pacific,  back  again  to  tlie  Northern  Pacific,  then  to  the  Philadelphia 
&  Reading,  and  finally  to  the  Southern  Pacific,  with  which  he  took  his  present  position  in  1902. 
From    1893   to    1895    he   was  vice-president  of  the  American  Society  of  Mechanical  Engineeis. 


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FRANCIS  V. 
KEE.SLING 


Donzel   Stoney 


DONZEL  STONED',  attorney  at  law.  Is 
a  native  of  California,  his  birthplace  be- 
in.g  Napa  and  the  date  February  1,  1870.  He 
is  a  son  of  Thomas  P.  Stoney.  He  graduated 
from  the  University  of  California  in  1 890,  be- 
ing married  in  I  894,  and  having  three  children. 
Mr.  Stoney  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  but  has 
never  held  public  office  nor  taken  an  active 
personal  interest  in  political  affairs.  While  his 
profession  is  that  of  the  law,  he  makes  a  business 
of  handling   oil   investments. 


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72 


Joseph  A.  Sheldon 


IN  another  part  of  this  book  is  given  a  brief 
description  of  what  has  been  accomphshed 
by  the  Mark  Sheldon  Company. 

Joseph  A.  Sheldon,  the  president  of  the  com- 
pany, is  one  of  the  successful  business  men  of 
San  Francisco.  He  was  born  at  Danesville, 
New  York  State,  of  a  long  line  of  old  New 
England  stock. 

His  company  was  among  the  first  to  erect 
permanent  buildings  in  San  Francisco  after  the 
big  fire,  and  they  have  always  given  their  sup- 
port to  any  movement  toward  the  betterment 
of  the  municipality. 

Joseph  A.  Sheldon  has  always  been  a  Repub- 
lican. He  married  Florence  Mayer,  March  1  7, 
1904,  and  is  the  proud  father  of  two  small 
children. 


73 


Joseph  H.  Rucker 


THE  president  of  the  Joseph  H.  Rucker  Co  , 
Inc.,  one  of  the  most  widely  known  real 
estate,  loan  and  insurance  concerns  in  San 
Francisco,  is  Joseph  Henry  Rucker,  who  was 
born  on  March  25,  1865,  in  San  Jose,  Califor- 
nia. Mr.  Rucker  is  a  son  of  Joseph  Edmund- 
son  and  Susan  Rucker,  who  crossed  the  plains 
by  ox  team  in  the  early  fifties,  and  who  went 
direct  to  Santa  Clara  County,  where  they  lived 
the  balance  of  their  lives.  Mr.  Rucker  attended 
the  University  of  the  Pacific  after  completing 
his  common  school  course.  He  was  married  to 
Mary  Phileta  Dunne  on  June  6,  1  888,  and  has 
three  sons,  Joseph  Edmundson,  DeWitt  C,  and 
Jerome  W.  Rucker,  the  first  named  being  asso- 
ciated with  his  father,  with  headquarters  at  the 
film's   San   Jose   office. 


74 


Percy  R.  Stuart 


PERCY  R.  STUART  is  a  son  of  Daniel 
Stuart,  one  of  Oakland's  pioneers,  having 
been  a  resident  of  that  city  since  I  856.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  there  in  1873. 
He  attended  the  University  of  California  for 
two  years,  and  then  spent  two  and  a  half  years 
in  practical  experience  in  mechanical  work,  after 
which  for  four  years  he  was  a  mechanical 
draughtsman  for  the  Risdon  Iron  Works.  Be- 
coming engineer  for  the  California  Iron  Works, 
he  rose  to  manager,  and  during  his  service  with 
this  concern  carried  through  both  in  design  and 
construction  a  number  of  engineering  tasks  of 
magnitude,  among  them  being  the  2,650-foot 
cable,  which  carries  narrow-gauge  lumber  cars 
across  the  American  river.  In  1901  Mr.  Stuart  became  Pacific  Coast  manager  for  the  Roebling 
Construction  Company  of  New  York.  He  has  completed  fire-proofing  contracts  in  many  build- 
ings along  the  Coast,  among  them  being  the  Merchants'  Exchange,  Custom  House,  St. 
Francis  Hotel,  Mutual  Savings  Bank,  and  theShreve,  Crocker,  Grant  and  Telephone  build 
ings  of  San  Francisco,  the  Union  Trust  building  of  Los  Angeles,  and  the  State  Capitol  at 
Sacramento. 


75 


ARTHUR  M. 
BROWN 


76 


Frank  Alton  Somers 


THE  subject  of  this  sketch,  Frank  Alton 
Somers,  is  a  man  of  a  great  diversity  of 
interests.  He  is  president  of  Somers  &  Co., 
the  Alfalfa  Products  Co.,  Somers  Estate  Co., 
and  McCullough  Provision  Co.,  is  a  director  of 
the  American  National  Bank,  the  Classen  Chem- 
ical Co.,  and  the  Merchants  Exchange,  and  a 
member  of  the  Governing  Board  of  the  Traffic 
Bureau  of  the  latter  body.  Mr.  Somers  was  born 
in  1870  in  San  Francisco  and  has  been  actively 
engaged  in  business  for  the  past  twenty-two 
years.  His  keen  judgment  and  aggressive  busi- 
ness policy  would  mark  him  for  success  in  any 
community,  and  San  Francisco  is  fortunate  in 
having  him  as  one  of  her  representative  citizens. 


77 


William  B.  Reis 


WILLIAM  BATTE  REIS.  president  of 
the  Reis  Estate  Company,  is  a  son  of  J. 
C.  Reis,  once  a  prominent  San  Francisco  banker. 
His  mother  was  Ellen  W.  Dent  when  she  mar- 
ried the  elder  Reis,  being  a  daughter  of  General 
George  W.  Dent,  a  brother-in-law  of  General 
U.  S.  Grant.  William  B.  Reis  was  born  in  San 
Francisco  on  February  24,  1867.  He  is  a 
capitalist  by  business,  and  in  addition  to  his  posi- 
tion with  the  Reis  Estate  Company,  is  president 
of  the  American  Construction  Company,  and  a 
director  of  several  corporations.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  School,  in 
Troy,  New  York.  Mr.  Reis  is  a  widower  and 
has  one  young  son. 


78 


H.  L.  Owesney 


ONE  of  the  pioneers  in  the  motor  car  in- 
dustry of  this  country  is  H.  L.  Owesney, 
Pacific  Coast  manager  for  the  Wmton  Motor 
Car  Co.,  and  identified  with  that  concern  for 
the  past  twelve  years  in  every  department  of  both 
the  manufacturing  and  selling  ends  of  its  busi- 
ness. Always  of  a  mechanical  turn  of  mind, 
Mr.  Owesney  was  attracted  to  the  automobile 
business,  which  was  still  in  its  experimental  stage 
when  he  graduated  from  school.  He  began  with 
the  Winton  Company  as  an  apprentice.  By 
consistent  and  conscientious  work,  he  earned 
repeated  promotion,  first  to  the  assembling  de- 
partment, then  to  the  experimental  department. 
He  was  then  made  foreman  of  the  repair  department,  then  chief  tester,  and  so  on  through  the 
i;nportant  positions  in  the  factory.  Realizing  the  broader  field  of  the  selling  end  of  the  indus- 
try, he  finally  entered  it  and  has  been  tremendously  successful.  Under  his  sales-managership, 
the  Winton  Company's  business  on  the  Pacific  Coast  has  increased  more  than  700  per  cent,  in 
three  years. 


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79 


JONAS  BLOOM 

Mr.  Bloom  is  a  member  of 
the  firm  of    Bloom    Brothers. 
Coffee  Importers 


80 


William  Henry  Weeks 


IT  WOULD  seem  that  the  whole  world  has 
contributed  to  the  roll  of  citizens  of  San 
Francisco.  In  reviewing  a  list  of  the  birthplaces 
of  the  people  of  this  city  one  cannot  fail  to 
be  impressed  with  the  fact  that  they  take  m 
almost  all  parts  of  the  habitable  globe. 

Mr.  William  Henry  Weeks  was  born  on 
Prince  Edwards  Island,  June  18,  1865.  He 
came  to  San  Francisco  when  quite  a  boy  and 
soon  established  for  himself  a  reputation  as  an 
architect. 

He  has  designed  some  of  the  best  known 
buildings  in  the  state  of  California,  is  a  staunch 
Republican  and  a  well  respected  citizen. 


81 


Charles  L.  Patton 


AMONG  the  attorneys  of  San  Francisco, 
\vhose  practice  lies  wholly  in  the  civil 
courts,  is  Charles  I..  Patton,  who  in  his  prac- 
tice has  been  identified  with  some  of  the  largest 
interests  of  both  the  city  and  state.  He  was 
born  in  Petaluma  in  I  864,  his  parents  belonging 
to  an  ancient  and  honored  Philadelphia  family. 
He  himself  was  educated  in  his  profession  in 
Philadelphia,  being  admitted  to  practice  in  this 
state  in  1887.  He  has  a  large  practice,  elegant 
offices  and  a  splendid  law  and  miscellaneous 
library.  He  is  a  great  lover  of  books  and  is  con- 
sidered a  connoisseur  of  them.  In  1  898  he  was 
a  candidate  for  mayor  of  San  Francisco,  and, 
although  he  was  defeated,  received  the  largest  vote  ever  given  a  Republican  mayoralty  candi- 
date in  the  city.  He  has  been  prominent  in  the  Masonic  order,  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Elks, 
Odd  Fellows  and  Native  Sons.      He  resides  at  Fair  Oaks. 


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Gaillard    Stoney 


PROMINENT  among  the  attorneys  of  San 
Francisco   is   Gaillard   Stoney,   of   the   law 
fi\m   of  Stoney,    Rouleau   &   Stoney. 

Born  at  Napa,  Cal.,  April  28,  1868.  he 
has  since  been  closely  allied  with  the  life  of  San 
Francisco.  He  graduated  from  the  University 
ct  California  in  1 888,  and  from  the  Hastings 
L,aw  College  m  1890.  From  1893  to  1899 
he  was  assistant  to  the  city  and  county  attorney 
of  San  Francisco.  From  1 895  to  1 902  he 
was  the  head  of  the  Beta  Theta  Pi  college  fra- 
ternity on  the  Coast.  On  graduating  from  the 
University  of  California  he  took  the  commission 
of  Colonel  of  University  Cadets.  He  is  a 
staunch  Democrat  and  has  always  stood  for  clean 
politics.      He  was  appointed  Lieutenant  Colonel  on  the  staff  of  Governor  Gillett. 


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C.  O.  Swanberg 


FROM  a  sailor  before  the  mast  to  a  position 
of  importance  in  the  San  Francisco  business 
world  is  the  story  of  the  progress  of  C.  O. 
Swanberg.  Born  in  Sweden  in  1 846,  Mr. 
Swanberg  became  a  sailor  at  the  age  of  9.  At 
I  7  he  became  second  officer  of  a  steamship  on 
the  coast  of  Brazil  and  Uruguay.  Afterward 
he  went  from  Montevideo  to  Kallaue  as  chief 
officer  on  an  English  ship,  and  then  spent  sev- 
eral years  in  Peru  and  Ecuador,  engaged  in 
various  mercantile  pursuits.  He  arrived  in  San 
Francisco  in  1870,  and  has  ever  since  been  en- 
gaged here,  in  the  State  of  Washington,  and  on 
the  Eastern  coast,  as  well  in  wholesaling  and 
planting  oysters.  Mr.  Swanberg  is  a  director  of  the  Morgan  Oyster  Co.,  president  of  the  Mer- 
chants' Ice  and  Cold  Storage  Co.,  and  president  and  manager  of  the  Portola  Cafe.  He  has  large 
farming  and   dairying  interests  in  Sweden.      He  has  been   married   twice  and  has  three   children. 


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Edward    Sweeney 


EDWARD  SWEENEY  holds  the  important 
position  of  Superintendent  of  the  United 
States  mint.  He  is  a  son  of  Daniel  and  Hannah 
Sweeney,  both  natives  of  Ireland,  and  was  born 
in  Fall  River,  Mass.,  on  Christmas  day,  1853. 
He  graduated  from  the  Albany  Law  School 
in  1 880,  and  practiced  his  profession  for  many 
years,  having  been  district  attorney  of  Shasta 
County,  California,  for  three  terms,  and  Superior 
Judge  of  Shasta  County  for  two  terms  before 
being  appointed  to  his  present  position.  He  is  a 
Republican  politically.  Mr.  Sweeney  was  mar- 
ried in    1 892   to   Miss   Mary  S.   Andrew. 


86 


Robert    Oxnard 


ROBERT  OXNARD,  vice-president  of  the 
American  Beet  Sugar  Co.,  is  one  of  the 
best  known  men  of  affairs  in  San   Francisco. 

The  success  of  this  gigantic  enterprise,  under 
the  management  of  such  able  men  as  Mr.  Ox- 
nard, has  been  one  of  the  triumphs  of  the  busi- 
ness world  during  the  last  decade. 

Robert  Oxnard  was  born  in  Louisiana  in 
1853,  and  after  completing  his  education,  was 
identified  with  the  business  of  sugar  refining  in 
New  York  until  I  888,  when  he  came  to  Cali- 
fornia. He  has  since  been  a  resident  of  San 
Francisco  and  is  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Union, 
University,   Golf  and  Country  Clubs. 

His  company  is  one  of  the  largest  of  the 
kind  in  the  United  States,  having  beet  sugar 
factories  in  California,  Colorado  and  Nebraska. 


87 


THEODORE  A.  BELL 


Harry  I.  Mulcrevy 


HARRY  I.  MULCREVY,  county  clerk, 
was  born  in  San  Francisco,  July  15,1  868, 
of  pioneer  parents.  Graduating  from  Sacred 
Heart  College,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
largest  printing  house  on  the  Coast  and  soon 
rose  to  be  its  assistant  secretary. 

He  was  elected  to  the  Assembly  in  1 896. 
becoming  chairman  of  the  San  Francisco  dele- 
gation. He  was  elected  county  clerk  in  1 905 
and  re-chosen  each  succeeding  election. 

Mr.  Mulcrevy  is  an  ex,ponent  of  the  higher 
ethical  code  in  politics.  He  is  a  stickler  for  pro- 
bity— a  reformer,  but  not  a  fanatic.  A  strict 
disciplinarian,  he  is  kind,  generous  and  affable 
to  his  subordinates. 

Among  fraternal  organizations  he  is  a  zealous 
worker,  being  prominent  in  the  Native  Sons, 
Eagles,  United  Workmen  and  Woodmen  of  the 
World. 


89 


George  W.  McNear,  Jr. 


THE  names  of  natives  of  San  Francisco  are 
written  large  in  the  history  of  its  develop- 
ment and  progress.  George  W.  McNear,  Jr., 
sen  of  George  W.  and  Amanda  McNear,  w^as 
born  in  the  City  by  the  Golden  Gate  in  I  868, 
and  has  long  been  identified  with  its  business 
activities.  He  is  now  president  of  the  George 
W.  McNear  Co.,  Inc.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  McNear  &  Wayman,  president  of 
the  Port  Costa  Water  Co.,  and  vice-president  of 
the  Port  Costa  Milling  Co.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  and  for  the  past  three  years  has  been 
trustee  of  the  City  of  Piedmont.  Mr.  McNear 
was  married  to  Etta  B.  Tucker  in  1 890  and 
has  three  children. 


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91 


George  H.  Clark 


GEORGE  HARVEY  CLARK  holds  the 
responsible  position  of  general  manager  for 
iN.  Gray  &  Co.  of  San  Francisco  and  the  James 
laylor  Co.  of  Oakland,  two  of  the  largest  under- 
taking firms  in  California.  Mr.  Clark  is  himself  an 
ui.dertaker  and  funeral  director  of  many  years' 
experience.  He  was  born  at  Florin,  Sacramento 
County,  in  1 864,  and,  spendmg  much  of  his 
life  in  his  native  county,  was  for  years  prommently 
identified  with  its  political  life.  For  four  terms 
he  was  coroner  of  Sacramento  County,  and  for 
two  terms  he  was  mayor  of  the  city  of  Sacramento. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  Mr.  Clark  is 
married  and  has  one  child,  a  son,  who  is  I  6  years 
old. 


92 


C.  H.  Bentley 


CHARLES  HARVEY  BENTLEY,  who  s 
one  of  the  progressive  business  men  playing 
an  important  part  in  the  "Making  of  San  Fran- 
cisco," was  born  in  this  city  in  1  869.  His  father 
was  Robert  Bentley,  a  clergyman. 

Mr.  Bentley  is  in  the  manufacturing  business, 
and  is  a  director  and  sales  manager  for  the  Cali- 
fornia Fruit  Canners'  Association. 

He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce for  five  years  and  president  of  that  body 
during  1907.  For  several  years  Mr.  Bentley  was 
a  trustee  of  the  San  Francisco  Public  Library,  and 
is  now  president  of  the  Board  of  Trustees.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  University  of  California 
with  the  class  of  I  89 1 .  Politically  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. 


93 


Sylvain    Schnaittacher 


S^'LVAIN  SCHNAITTACHER,  architect 
by  profession,  is  a  native  of  San  Francisco, 
and  was  born  November  30,  1874.  He  grad- 
uated from  Boys  High  School  and  attended  the 
Mark  Hopkins  Institute  of  Art,  after  which  he 
received  five  years'  office  training,  from  I  89 1  to 
1  896,  in  the  office  of  the  late  A.  Page  Brown. 
After  the  untimely  death  of  Mr.  Brown,  he  spent 
some  time  studying  abroad,  returning  to  San  Fran- 
cisco in  1901,  since  when  he  has  been  in  the  con- 
stant practice  of  his  profession.  He  was  made 
an  Associate  of  the  American  Institute  of  Archi- 
tects in  1  905  and  the  year  following  was  elected 
Secretary  of  the  San  Francisco  Chapter,  American 
Institute  of  Architects,  which  office  he  has  held  since.  Recently  he  was  appointed  by  Former 
Governor  Gillett  to  fill  a  vacancy  on  the  State  Board  of  Architecture.  Mr.  Schnaittacher  was 
the  architect  of  many  prominent  buildings  in  the  reconstruction  of  San  Francisco,  notably  the  Cen- 
tral Realty  Building,  a  building  for  E.  W.  Hopkins,  Post  and  Powell  streets,  and  the  Prager  De- 
Pf-.rtment  Store  building.  Market  and  Jones  streets.  Mr.  Schnaittacher  is  a  member  of  the  Argo- 
naut, Automobile  and  Olympic  Clubs.  In  1  908  he  was  married  to  Miss  Cecelia  Shirek  of  this  city. 
They  have  one  child,  a  boy. 


94 


DR.  ALFRED  E. 
REGENSBURGER 

Well  Known  Dermatologist 
and  Globe-Trotter. 


95 


Gustave    Brenner 


LONG  is  the  list  of  achievements  and  re- 
sponsibilities to  the  credit  of  Gustave  Bren- 
ner, capitalist,  who  was  born  in  Germany  m 
1 862,  but  who  has  been  active  in  San  Fran- 
cisco life  for  many  years.  Mr.  Brenner  was 
elected  vice-president  of  the  Merchants'  Asso- 
ciation in  the  early  part  of  1910,  having  pre- 
viously been  one  of  its  directors.  He  was  for- 
merly a  trustee  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
and  for  eight  years  has  been  president  or  the 
San  Francisco  Credit  Men's  Association.  He 
was  a  supervisor  under  the  administration  of 
Mayor  E.  R.  Taylor,  having  been  appointed 
by  Taylor  on  his  roll  of  honor.  He  was  also 
on  the  executive  committee  of  the  Sanitation  Campaign,  and  is  on  the  directorate  of  the  Lin- 
coln Realty  Co.  and  the  William  Morris  Co.  Western.  He  was  chairman  of  Division  2  of  the 
Finance  Committee  of  the  Panama-Pacific  Exposition  Co.  Mr.  Brenner's  business  and  civic 
activities  have  not  deprived  him  of  the  joys  of  home  life,  as  he  is  married  and  the  father  of 
a   son   and   three   dauphters. 


96 


William   Denman 


WILLIAM  DENMAN,  attorney  at  law, 
was  born  in  San  Francisco  in  1872,  of 
New  York  and  New  England  ancestors,  the 
fust  of  whom  arrived  in  America  in  163L  His 
father  was  James  Denman,  Superintendent  of 
Schools  and  principal  of  the  first  school  in  San 
Francisco  under  the  state  system.  His  mother 
was  formerly  Miss  Helen  V.  Jordan  of  Maine. 
Mr.  Denman  graduated  from  the  University  of 
California  in  1  894  and  from  the  Harvard  Law 
School  in  1897.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Phi   Beta   Kappa   Society. 

Admitted  to  the  bar  in  1 898,  he  has  since 
been  in  general  practice  in  both  Federal  and 
State  courts,  having  achieved  considerable  dis- 
tinction for  his  conduct  of  litigation  arising  from 
the  sinking  of  the  Rio  de  Janeiro,  the  explosion 
OP  the  Progress,  the  collision  of  the  Columbia 
and  San  Pedro,  and  other  notable  maritime  cases. 

He  was  a  lecturer  and  assistant  professor 
of  law  in  the  Hastings  Law  College  and  Uni- 
versity of  California,  I  902  to  1  906.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  committee  and  author  of  the  re- 
port on  the  Cause  of  Municipal  Corruption  in 
San  Francisco.  He  has  long  been  active  in  the 
work  of  the  Bar  Association  and  an  organizer 
of  the  state-wide  movement  for  non-partisan  ju- 
dicial elections. 


97 


George  W.  Barnhart 


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EORGE     W.      BARNHART,     western 
manager    for    the    Marion    Steam    Shovel 


Company,  7 1  8  Monadnock  building,  San  Fran- 
cisco, was  born  near  Marion,  Marion  County, 
Ohio.  He  came  to  San  Francisco  about  34 
years  ago,  finding  employment  in  the  law  de- 
partment of  the  firm  of  A.  L.  Bancroft  &  Co. 
After  a  fire  destroyed  the  Bancroft  building  in 
I  886,  he  took  a  position  with  the  firm  of  Ban- 
croft-Whitney Co.  After  being  there  two  years, 
he  became,  in  1 888,  western  manager  for  the 
Marion  Steam  Shovel  Company,  and  has  held 
this  position  for  22  years. 

The  Marion  Steam  Shovel  Company,  whose 
works  are  located  at  Marion,  Ohio,  is  one  of  the  largest  manufacturing  establishments  of  its 
kind  in  the  country.  Its  trade  extends  all  over  the  civilized  world,  and  it  has  agencies  in  every 
important  foreign  country.  Mr.  Barnhart  has  handled  a  vast  amount  of  business  for  it  on  the 
PaciSc   Coast. 


E.  C.  Leffingwell 


ELMORE  C.  LEFFINGWELL  was  pri- 
vate secretary  to  ex-Mayor  McCarthy  of 
San  Francisco,  and  was  born  at  Green  Bay, 
Wisconsin,  June  29,  1875.  He  spent  his  early 
years  in  Milwaukee,  and  after  completing  his  edu- 
cation there  became  a  reporter  and  cartoonist  for 
Peck's  Sun,  a  widely-known  weekly  journal.  He 
soon  passed  on  to  daily  newspaper  work,  moved 
to  Chicago,  and  from  that  city  came  to  San  Fran- 
cisco to  work  for  the  Chronicle  in  1 893.  He 
was  with  the  Chronicle  for  three  years,  then  with 
the  Post,  subsequently  serving  as  telegraph  edi- 
tor of  the  Examiner  and  as  night  editor  of  the 
Associated  Press.  While  political  editor  of  the 
Evening  Post  he  was  appointed  to  the  Board  of 
Election  Commissioners,  serving  three  years 
while  still  doing  newspaper  work.  He  was  then 
appointed  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
serving  four  years  in  that  capacity.  He  had 
long  been  a  friend  and  admirer  of  P.  H.  Mc- 
Carthy, supporting  the  mayor  when  he  first  ran 
for  the  of.Sce.  In  the  last  municipal  campaign 
he  plunged  into  the  fight  earnestly,  and  when 
Mr.  McCarthy  was  elected  he  at  once  chose 
Mr.  LefHngwell  for  his  secretary.  Mr.  Leffing- 
well is  a  Republican  in  national  politics,  but 
has  always  been  an  active  supporter  of  organized 
labor.  He  at  one  time  formed  a  Reporters' 
Lnion  here.  He  has  held  several  offices  in  the 
San  Francisco  Press  Club  and  is  also  a  member 
Of  the  Olympic  Club. 


99 


Walker  C.  Graves 


WALKER  COLEMAN  GRAVES,  at- 
torney at  law,  was  born  in  Kentucky  on 
June  1 0,  1 849.  His  parents,  Coleman  and 
V^irginia  Graves,  were  both  natives  of  Virginia. 
Graduating  from  the  University  of  Kentucky 
law  school  m  1878,  Mr.  Graves  has  practiced 
his  profession  for  thirty  years  in  San  Francisco. 
He  married  Maude  Strother  James,  daughter  of 
the  late  Jefferson  G.  James,  May  1  7,  1 882, 
and  has  two  sons,  Jefferson  James  Graves  and 
XX'alker  Coleman  Graves,  both  grown.  He  was 
special  assistant  district  attorney  of  San  Francisco 
foi  two  years,  and  was  the  Democratic  candidate 
for  Attorney  General  the  year  ex-Mayor  Pond 
ran  for  governor.  He  is  now  president  of  the 
J.  G.  James  Co.,  engaged  in  the  wholesale  butcher,  cattle  and  ranch  business,  and  in  the 
colonization  of  18,000  acres  of  land,  a  part  of  the  company's  Fresno  ranch  of  75,000  acres. 
Mr.   Graves  is  still  engaged  in  the  active  practice  of  law. 


100 


S.  A.  KNAPP 


101 


J.  V.  Coleman 


JAMES  V.  COLEMAN  was  bom  in  New 
York  in  1  85  1 ,  of  Irish  parents.  A  gradu- 
ate of  Georgetown  University,  he  is  the  holder 
of  the  following  degrees:  A.  B.,  A.  M.,  LL. 
B.,  and  Ph.  D.  Although  graduated  a  lawyer 
he  never  practiced,  but  early  came  West  and 
took  up  mining.  In  public  life  he  served  as 
Assemblyman  from  San  Mateo  in  1  882-4,  and 
was  chairman  and  author  of  Lake  Bigler  For- 
estry Commission.  Still  on  the  Democratic  party, 
he  ran  for  nomination  for  governor  in  1 886, 
when  Pond  was  nommated.  One  hundred  and 
thirty-six  delegates  stayed  with  him  to  the  last, 
refusing  to  change  their  votes.  Mr.  Coleman  is 
niarried  and  has  one  son. 


102 


Edward  Chambers 


EDWARD  CHAMBERS  is  one  of  the 
Santa  Fe  railroad's  big  men  in  the  West. 
He  has  been  identified  with  the  road  in  Cali- 
fornia for  many  years  and  has  done  much  to- 
ward building  up  its  traffic  here.  Mr.  Cham- 
bers is  assistant  freight  and  traffic  manager  of 
the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  system.  He 
is  a  native  of  Illinois,  having  been  born  in  that 
state  on   February    16,    1859. 


103 


James  Newlands,  Jr. 


AN  adopted  son  of  the  City  by  the  Golden 
Gate  is  James  Newlands,  Jr.,  who  came 
to  California  in  the  year  of  1878,  and  with  a 
school  and  business  college  education,  at  the  age 
of  I  9  started  his  way  up  the  ladder  of  success. 
After  he  had  spent  several  years  in  the  wilds  of 
Nevada,  mining,  assaying,  surveying  and  ranch- 
ing, his  ability  was  brought  to  the  attention  of 
the  Sharons,  who  were  quick  to  recognize  him 
as  the  right  man  in  the  right  place,  and  at  the 
age  of  26  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  vast 
interests  of  the  estate  throughout  California.  He 
soon  became  a  director  of  the  estate,  and  is  now 
president  of  several  well  known  mining  companies 
and  a  part  owner  of  the  famous  Mt.  Tamalpais 
m.ine.      Mr.   Newlands  was  born  in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1869 


104 


Benj.  G.  McDougall 


BENJAMIN  GEER  McDOUGALL, 
architect,  has  long  been  identified  with 
many  of  the  biggest  architectural  undertakings, 
not  only  in  San  Francisco,  but  in  the  interior 
of  the  state.  Mr.  McDougall  is  an  architect 
by  heritage,  having  at  one  time  been  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  McDougall  &  Son,  his  father  hav- 
ing been  Barnett  McDougall.  Born  in  San 
Francisco  in  1 866.  Mr.  McDougall  took  up 
the  study  of  architecture  in  I  883,  and  has  pur- 
sued the  profession  actively  ever  since.  He  was 
married  on  May  I  4,  1  896,  to  Miss  Frances  E. 
Hawkins,  three  children  being  born  to  them. 


103 


WILLIAM  G. 
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106 


E.  E.  Hewlett 


EE.  HEWLETT  is  one  of  the  best  known 
•  young  attorneys  of  San  Francisco.  He 
was  born  in  Petaluma,  California,  on  June  5, 
1878.  Aside  from  being  a  Native  Son,  he  has 
in  him  the  sturdy  mixture  of  England  and  New 
England  blood,  his  father  being  a  native  of  the 
mother  country  and  his  mother  of  Maine.  Mr. 
Hewlett  graduated  from  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia as  a  Bachelor  of  Letters  in  1 900.  He 
later  received  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws 
from  the  Hastings  Law  College  and  still  later 
f'om  the  great  Harvard  Law  School.  He  is 
married,  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  has  a 
big   practice   in   his  profession. 


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Thomas  S.  Molloy 


SAN  FRANCISCO  boasts  an  array  of  attor- 
neys at  law  whose  prominence  in  the  Amer- 
ican bar  has  long  been  recognized.  Incidentally 
in  their  work  of  restoring  titles  that  were  all  but 
lost  in  the  great  fire  of  1 906,  they  have  done 
much  in  the  rehabilitation  of  the  city,  particu- 
larly in  putting  the  city  on  a  substantial  business 
basis. 

One  of  San  Francisco's  lawyers  whose  name 
stands  among  the  leaders  is  Thomas  S.  Molloy, 
who,  like  many  other  prominent  citizens,  is  a 
native  son.  Mr.  Molloy  was  born  in  San  Fran- 
cisco on  December  26,  1 869.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools,  and  then  graduated 
from  the  University  of  California  in  1892.  He 
has  been  practicing  his  profession  for  many 
years. 


108 


Lester  L.  Morse 


A  MAN  who  has  done  a  great  deal  toward 
making  San  Francisco  the  great  seed  cen- 
tei  of  the  Pacific  Coast  is  Mr.  Lester  L.  Morse. 
Born  in  Santa  Clara,  California,  he  started  in 
business  with  his  father,  C.  C.  Morse,  whose 
name  the  company  now  bears  under  the  presi- 
dency and  management  of  the  son.  Five  years 
ago  he  personally  negotiated  the  combination  of 
the  two  great  companies.  The  Cox  Seed  Company 
and  E.  J.  Bowen  &  Co.,  with  his  own  com- 
pany, a  clever  merger,  which  has  resulted  ad- 
vantageously for  the  stockholders  of  the  present 
concern,   C.   C.   Morse  &  Co. 

Mr.  Morse  is  married  and  has  two  children. 
He  IS  recognized  as  an  active  and  progressive 
citizen. 


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Henry  H.  Meyers 


HENRY  H.  MEYERS,  by  profession  an 
architect,  is  a  native  of  California,  born  in 
i867.  His  father,  J.  F.  Meyers,  comes  from 
Pennsylvania,  and  his  mother,  Mary  E.  Meyers, 
\v3lS  born  m  Germany. 

After  graduating  from  the  high  school,  Mr. 
Meyers  served  a  carpenter's  apprenticeship  to 
secure  a  practical  foundation  for  his  profession, 
and  then  entered  the  office  of  Percy  &  Ham- 
ilton, architects,  succeeding  to  their  practice  in 
I  900. 

In  1  902  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Clar- 
ence R.  Ward,  the  firm  being  known  as  Meyers 
&  Ward.  This  was  dissolved  in  the  latter  part 
of  1909. 

Mr.  Meyers  has  had  charge  of  the  erection 
of  many  structures  in  San  Francisco,  including 
the  Kohl  building.  Wells  Fargo  building,  Alaska 
Commercial  building,  Samuels'  Lace  House, 
Winchester  Hotel,  Friedman's  Furniture  House, 
and   many   others. 

He  has  also  erected  the  Alexander  Young 
Hotel,  Honolulu,  Stockton  Savings  and  Loan 
Society,  Stockton ;  People's  Savings  Bank,  Sac- 
ramento; First  Presbyterian  Church  and  First 
IVlethodist  Church,  Alameda. 

Mr.  Meyers  was  married  to  Miss  Bertha  S. 
May  in    1  894  and  has  three  children. 


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Charles  Henry  Oatman 


CHARLES  HENRY  OATMAN  was 
born  in  Sacramento,  California,  January 
20,  1 862.  He  graduated  from  the  University 
of  California  at  the  age  of  20  years,  and  has 
assiduously  applied  his  learning  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession  as  attorney.  Today  his  name 
stands  among  the  foremost  who  have  fought  for 
l^w  and  order  in  San  Francisco  and  the  develop- 
ment  of   the   city. 

His  father,  Ira  E.  Oatman,  crossed  the  plains 
to  California  in    1 849. 

With  the  virile  blood  of  the  pioneer  in  his 
veins,  and  endowed  with  an  exceptionally  bright 
mind,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that  Mr.  Oat- 
man should  be  placed  on  the  roll  of  fame  in  the 
making  of  San  Francisco. 


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112 


Will    D.    Shea 


WILL  D.  SHEA  is  one  of  San  Francisco's 
home  product  architects,  and  for  three 
years  held  the  position  of  city  architect  in  the 
city  of  his  birth.  He  has  been  a  prominent 
fraternal  and  club  man  for  years.  He  was  a 
director  of  the  Olympic  Club  for  five  years,  is  a 
member  of  California  Parlor  of  the  Native  Sons 
of  the  Golden  West,  and  for  a  long  time  was 
a  member  of  the  Grand  Parlor.  He  also  belongs 
to  the  San  Francisco  Lodge  of  Elks,  to  the 
Knights  of  Columbus,  and  to  the  Young  Men's 
histitute,  besides  being  a  member  of  the  Menlo 
Country  Club.  Mr.  Shea  is  a  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics. He  is  married  and  has  two  children,  a 
girl  of  eight  years  and  a   boy  of  seven. 


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William  B.  McGerry 


SAN  FRANCISCO'S  real  estate  men,  by 
their  faith  in  the  city  and  their  untiring 
work  in  the  promotion  of  its  properties,  have 
played  a  big  part  in  its  making  and  in  investing 
it  with  never-dying  prosperity.  William  B.  Mc- 
Gerry ranks  among  the  realty  men  who  have 
never  lost  their  confidence  and  who  have  had 
their  belief  in  their  home  city  justified  in  ten- 
fold  measure. 

Mr.  McGerry  has  been  prominent  in  his  field 
of  operation  for  several  years.  He  came  to  the 
West  from  New  York,  where  he  was  born. 

Like    many    another    successful    business    man 
in  San   Francisco,   he  has  a  college  degree  that 
fitted  him  originally  more  for  the  life  of  the  stu- 
dent   than    the    life    of    the    money    maker.       He  is    a    graduate    of    St.    Lawrence    University    ir 
New  York. 


114 


p.  H.  McCarthy 


PH.  McCarthy,  ex-Mayor  of  San 
•  Francisco,  was  born  in  County  Limerick, 
Ireland,  March  1  7,  1  863.  He  was  apprenticed 
to  a  builder,  under  whom  he  became  a  journey- 
man. In  1  880  he  came  to  America,  locating  first 
in  Chicago,  and  later  removing  to  St.  Louis,  where 
with  six  other  artisans  he  organized  the  United 
Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  Amer- 
ica. It  was  in  1  886  that  he  came  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, where  he  soon  began  his  efforts  to  bring 
the  mechanics  of  the  building  trades  into  closer 
affiliation.  In  1  894  the  San  Francisco  Building 
Trades  Council  was  launched,  and  Mr.  Mc- 
Carthy has  ever  since  been  its  president.  He 
has  also  been  a  member  of  the  executive  board  of  the  National  Brotherhood.  He  took  an  ac- 
tive part  in  framing  the  charter  under  which  San  Francisco  is  now  governed,  and  in  the  debates 
of  1896,  when  the  charter  was  framed,  surprised  the  pubHc  by  his  knowledge  of  municipal 
law.  He  was  responsible  for  the  eight-hour  day  for  city  labor,  and  the  $2  minimum  wage  clause 
in  the  charter.  Upon  the  adoption  of  the  chartu,  Mr.  McCarthy  was  appointed  Civil  Service 
Commissioner  by   Mayor  J.    D.    Phelan,   serving  four  years  and  accomplishing  much  for  the  wage- 


On  November  2,  1909,  Mr.  McCarthy  was  elected  Mayor  of  San  Francisco  by  a  majority 
over  two  opponents  of  more  than  1  0,000,  carrying  with  him  into  office  almost  the  entire  Union 
Labor  ticket. 


115 


Willard  O.  Wayman 


AMONG  the  leaders  in  the  in- 
surance business  in  San  Fran- 
cisco is  Willard  O.  Wayman,  who 
was  born  in  this  city  in  1871,  and 
who  began  his  business  career  with 
the  Alta  Insurance  Company  at 
Siockton  in  1 899.  Later  he  took 
up  general  agency,  representing  the 
British  America,  Michigan  Fire  and 
Marine,  and  the  People's  of  New 
Hampshire.  In  1897,  at  the  age 
of  26,  he  was  appointed  manager 
for  the  Coast  of  the  Merchants'  Fire 
Ii^surance  Co.  of  Newark,  and  later 
of  the  Girard  Fire  and  Marine  of 
Philadelphia.  In  1901  the  firm  of 
McNear  &  Wayman  was  estab- 
lished, being  at  present  general 
agents  for  the  National  Fire  Insur- 
ance Co.  of  Hartford,  the  Colonial 
Fire  Underwriters'  Agency,  and  the 
Mechanics  and  Traders'  Insurance 
Co.  of  New  Orleans.  The  firm 
has  progressed  with  remarkable  suc- 
cess. In  1 898  the  year's  premium 
income  was  $67,000,  ninety  odd 
companies  surpassing  this  business 
oi.  the  Coast.  In  1 909,  the  prem- 
iums were  more  than  $1,218,782, 
the  firm  rankmg  fourth  in  the  list  of 
general  agencies  on  the  Pacific 
Coast,    as   regards  premium    income. 


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Wiley  F.  Crist 


ONE    of    the    progressive    young 
Republican    attorneys    of    San 
Francisco  is  Wiley  F.  Crist,  who  has 
offices   in   the   Monadnock   building. 
He  was  born  in  Victoria,  Illinois,  in 
1878,    belonging    to   an    old    Illinois 
family  and  descended  from  ancestors 
who  came  to  America  in  the  historic 
Mayflower.       He    is    a    graduate    of 
George  Washington  University  with 
the  class  of  1  899,  and  has  been  prac- 
ticing   his    profession    in    San    Fran- 
cisco for  seven  years.      He  was  mar- 
ried   in    February,      1909,    to    Miss 
Frances  Warner,   and  has  an  infant 
son,  Wiley  F.  Crist,  Jr.      Mr.  Crist 
has  taken  an  active  interest  in  civic 
ai;d  party  affairs  in  San   Francisco, 
as  well  as  in  the  affairs  of  the  Ma- 
sonic order,  of  which  he  is  a  mem- 
ber.     He  has  a  large  legal  practice, 
and    his    standing   at    the    California 
bar   is    the   envy   of   many   an   older 
piactitioner. 


Cyrus    Peirce 


CYRUS  PEIRCE,  banker,  declares  there 
are  no  records  extant  to  prove  that  he  was 
ever  blessed  with  ancestors.  His  father  was 
Joshua  Peirce,  and  his  mother  Mary  E.  T. 
Peirce,  and  he  was  born  in  Bristol,  Pennsyl- 
vania, the  Peirces  being  all  of  old  Quaker  stock. 
But  farther  back  than  this  Mr.  Peirce  has  not 
followed  the  genealogical  tree.  Until  recently 
Mr.  Peirce  was  a  Republican,  but  says  he  is 
not  sure  now  whether  he  belongs  to  any  party 
Of  not.  In  a  more  serious  biographical  vein, 
however,  Mr.  Peirce  is  a  prominent  figure  in  bus- 
iness circles,  being  Pacific  Coast  manager  of  the 
N.  W.  Halsey  Company,  and  director  as  well 
in  a  number  of  corporations.  His  wife  was 
formerly    Miss    Maud    Rowan    Reid,    and    they  have  one  child,   about  seven  years  of  age. 


119 


W.  L.  McGuire 


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iLLIAM  L.  McGUIRE,  attorney  at  law 
and  oil  operator,  is  a  young  man  who  has 
risen  to  prominence  btth  in  the  busmess  and 
ofhcial  Hfe  of  California.  Born  in  Missouri  in 
1674,  he  moved  with  his  parents  to  New  York 
a  year  later,  and  came  with  them  to  California 
in  1885.  He  graduated  from  Stanford  Univer- 
sity in  1  896  and  at  once  began  the  practice  of 
law,  which  he  pursued  for  ten  years. 

For  twelve  years  he  has  been  actively  engaged 
in  oil  production,  being  one  of  the  first  operators 
in  the  Coalinga  field,  and  being  heavily  interested 
in  the  Coalinga,  Midway,  Lost  Hills  and  Mari- 
ccpa  districts.  He  holds  important  positions  with 
several  of  the  biggest  oil  companies,  and  is  vice- 
president  of  the  Portola  Improvement  Co.,  owning  townsites  along  the  Western     Pacific. 

Mr.    McGuire   was   a    member    of   the    California  Legislature  from   1907  to   1909,     and  was 
Secretary  of   the  State   Bank  Commission   under  Governor  Gillett.     He  is  a  Republican  in  politics. 
Mr.   McGuire  was  married  six  years  ago  to  Miss  Mabel  Agee,  and  has  one  daughter,  Wilma. 
He  is  partner  of  C.  H.  Holbrook,  Jr  ,  in  handling  high-class  oil  and  mining  investments. 


J.    Charles    Green 


JCHAS.  GREEN  has  been  aptly  described 
•  as  a  compact  bundle  of  energy  and  enthu- 
siasm. It  is  these  qualities  that  have  placed  him 
among  San  Francisco's  most  progressive  busi- 
ness men.  Largely  through  his  efforts  since  the 
fire  of  1906  the  city  has  been  enriched  by  the 
building  of  the  Princess  and  Garrick  Theatres 
in  Ellis  Street,  the  Auditorium  building  at  Page 
a?id  Fillmore,  and  the  Valencia  Theatre  in  Valen- 
cia Street,  one  of  the  largest  and  best  equipped 
playhouses  in  the  West.  He  will  shortly  con- 
struct an  office  building  for  what  is  said  to  be 
the  best  equipped  outdoor  advertising  plant  in 
America. 

Mr.  Green  has  been  in  the  outdoor  advertis- 
ing business  for  twenty  years,  and  has  succeeded 
by  perseverance  and  enthusiasm,  by  his  sense  of  values,  by  his  technical  knowledge  of  his  busi- 
ness, and  by  his  ability  to  solve  knotty  problems  for  the  merchants  making  outdoor  advertising  dis- 
plays. 


121 


Theodore    W.    Lenzen 


MANY  beautiful  California  buildings  that 
stand  as  landmarks  in  their  communities 
are  monuments  to  the  architectural  skill  of  Theo- 
dore W.  Lenzen,  whose  offices  are  at  709  Hum- 
boldt Bank  Building.  Mr.  Lenzen  was  born 
in  San  Jose  in  1  864.  He  is  a  son  of  the  late 
Jacob  Lenzen,  with  whom  he  was  associated 
until  1 900.  During  the  fifteen  years  of  this 
association  he  supervised  the  erection  in  San  Jose 
and  surrounding  cities  of  many  public  buildings 
and  residences,  prominent  among  them  being  the 
Hotel  Vendome  and  the  Paso  Robles  Hotel. 
lie  visited  Europe  in  1886,  spending  the  year 
abroad  in  travel  and  study.  In  1 890  he  was 
niarried  to  Kate  A.  Berlingen.  Two  sons  and 
a  daughter  have  been  born  to  them.  Since  com- 
ing to  San  Francisco  he  has  supervised  the  construction  of  many  fiats  and  apartment  houses,  as 
well  as  business  buildings.  Among  them  are  the  Old  Homestead  Bakery,  the  Pacific  Motor  Car 
Company's  three-story  building  at  Golden  Gate  Avenue  and  Polk  Street,  and  a  three-story  build- 
ing  for   the   American    Foresters  at  Salinas.      In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 


Oscar   T.   Luning 


/^SCAR  THEODORE  LUNING.  ranked 

^-^  among  the  leaders  in  the  real  estate  and 
insurance  field  in  San  Francisco,  was  born  in 
this  city  on  December  II,  1  86 1 .  His  father 
was  born  m  Germany  and  his  mother  in  Dub- 
lin, Ireland.  Mr.  Luning  was  educated  in 
Europe,  graduating  from  college  at  Geneva, 
Switzerland,   in    1879. 

He  entered  business  life  in  San  Francisco 
as  a  young  man  and  has  been  tremendously 
successful,  as  his  standing  in  San  Francisco 
commercial  circles  will  bear  testimony.  Mr. 
Luning's  wife  was  formerly  Miss  Mary  Jose- 
phine Philippe.  They  have  one  child,  a  son, 
thirty  years  old. 

While  he  has  never  held  public  office  or 
done  more  politically  than  his  duty  as  a  con- 
scientious citizen,  he  has  always  been  ?  Re- 
publican. 


123 


Lewis  F.  Byington 


LEWIS  F.   BYINGTON  was  bom  in  tl 
old   historic    mining    town    of   Downievill 
Sierra   County.      His   father,    Hon.    Lewis    B 
ington,   a   member  of   the   Legislature  of    1 87' 
one    of   the    best    known    pioneers    of    Northe; 
California,    was    a    native    of    Connecticut,    b 
raised    in   Cincinnati,    his   parents   moving    was 
ward   to   Ohio   when   he   was   a    child.      Le^\ 
F.     Byington    received    his    early    education 
the    public    schools    at    Downieville,     but    wi 
graduated  from  Santa  Clara  College,  with  hit 
honors,   at   the  age   of  eighteen,   and   later   toe 
the    degree   of    Bachelor    of    Laws    at    Hastini 
College    of    the    Law.       He    then    took    up    h 
residence    in    San    Francisco    and    was    electe 
a    member   of    the    Board    of   Supervisors.      H 
firm    stand    for    honesty     and     improvement     i 
civic    affairs    led    to    his    election    as    the    fir 
district    attorney    under    the    new    charter.       H 
was    three    times    elected    to    this   office   the    la 
time  by   a   majority   of   25,000    votes,    carryin 
every  one  of  the   303   precincts  in   the  city,   a 
unprecedented      achievement.         He      personal! 
prosecuted    every    important    case    and    secure 
the   greatest   number   of   convictions   of  any   dis 
trict   attorney    in    the   history   of   San    Franciscc 
Mr.    Byington    is    a    Past    Grand    President    c 
the    Native    Sons,    a   member   of    the    Elks,    ant 
known   and   respected   throughout   the   state 


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DANIEL  A.  RYAN 

Mr.  Ryan  is  one  of  the  leading  Attorneys 
of  San  Francisco. 


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Lester    Herrick 


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ESTER  HERRICK,  certified  public  ac- 
countant, is  a  son  of  the  late  E.  M.  Her- 
rick, president  of  the  Pacific  Pine  Lumber  Co., 
and  was  born  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  March 
6,  1872.  After  graduating  from  McClure's 
Military  Academy,  he  was  associated  with  his 
father  in  the  wholesale  lumber  business,  and 
since  I  898  has  been  a  certified  public  account- 
ant, forming  a  partnership  with  his  brother, 
Aaron   Herrick,   in    1905. 

Governor    Gage    appointed    him    on    the    first 

Slate    Board    of    Accountancy.       He    was    re- 

acpointed  by  Governor  Pardee.      He  had  charge 

of    the    accounts   of   the    Red    Cross   and    Relief 

Funds   following  the   disaster  of    1 906,   his   final 

report    rendered    August     1 6,     1 909,     showing 

•receipts    and    disbursements    of    $9,673,057.94. 

He   has    been    employed    by   the    government,  by   the   city   of  San    Francisco,    by  Seattle,    and 

by     many     big    corporations     to     expert     books.  Mr.    Herrick    is    a    member    of    the    Merchants' 

Exchange,  the  San  Francisco  Commercial  Club,  the    Bohemian    Club,    and    the    Rainier    Club    of 

Seattle. 


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John  J.  Gleason 


EVERYBODY  who  reads  the  sporting 
pages  of  the  daily  press — and  that  means 
nearly  everybody  who  reads  at  all — knows 
Jchn  J.  Gleason,  who  is  universally  called 
"jack."  Aside  from  an  occasional  plunge  into 
the  promotion  of  ring  encounters,  notable  among 
which  was  the  Jeffries-Johnson  battle  at  Reno 
in  1910.  Mr.  Gleason  devotes  his  time  to 
baseball.  He  has  for  several  years  been  asso- 
ciated with  the  management  of  the  San  Fran- 
cisco "Seals."  He  was  once  leader  of  the 
Olympic  Club. 

Mr.  Gleason  is  a  son  of  John  and  Bridget 
Gleason,  and  was  born  m  the  state  of  Wash- 
ington in  1871.  He  is  a  graduate  of  the 
College  of  the  Sacred  Heart  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. 


127 


Richard  W.   Costello 


P  ICHARD  W.  COSTELLO  is  vice-presi- 
■*■  ^  dent  and  manager  of  the  big  dry  goods 
firm  of  O'Connor,  Moffatt  &  Co.  He  was 
born  m  New  Jersey  m  1878,  his  father  being 
a  native  of  County  Limerick,  Ireland,  and  his 
mother  a  native   of  London,   England. 

Mr.  Costello  was  educated  at  St.  Xavier's 
College,  Cincinnati,  and  Santa  Clara  College, 
California. 

He  has  been  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  busi- 
ness for  many  years  and  is  a  director  of  the 
Merchants'    Association    of   San    Francisco. 

He  was  married  in  1 902  to  Miss  Mary 
^X  elsh.       Thev    have    five    children. 


128 


George  H.   Strong 


IT  IS  a  pleasure  to  present  a  few  facts  about 
George  H.  Strong,  who,  in  a  quiet  and 
unobtrusive  way,  has  done  much  for  San 
Francisco.  Mr.  Strong  was  born  at  North- 
ampton, Mass.,  and  is  a  graduate  of  Dart- 
mouth College.  He  is  a  descendant  of  the 
early  Pilgrim  Fathers,  tracing  his  ancestry  back 
to  that  John  Strong  who  landed  on  the  bleak 
shores  of   Massachusetts  in   the  year    1630. 

His  profession  is  that  of  Patent  Solicitor  and 
Attorney,  but  he  has  given  much  of  his  time 
to  the  promotion  of  athletics.  He  was  for 
years  a  member  of  the  directorate  of  the  Olym- 
pic Club,  the  Pioneer  Rowing  Club,  the  San 
Francisco  and  Oakland  Bicycle  Club,  and  the 
Alameda  Automobile  Club. 


129 


DR.  HARTLAND  LAW 


130 


Harry  L.  Roff 

FORTY  years  of  insurance  work  in  the 
neighborhood  of  San  Francisco  bay  is 
the  record  of  Harry  L.  Roff,  general  agent 
of  the  Home  Insurance  Company.  Born  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  more  than  sixty-eight  years 
ago,  Mr.  Roff  came  to  California  in  a  prai- 
rie schooner,  and  began  to  be  a  money  earner 
as  one  of  the  riders  of  the  famous  pony  ex- 
piess.  Subsequently  he  worked  for  the  Wells 
Fargo  Express  Company,  and  on  May  7, 
1870,  settled  m  Oakland  as  local  agent  for 
the  Home  Insurance  Company.  He  has  been 
in  the  one  company's  service  ever  since,  hav- 
ing been  made  general  agent  of  the  San  Fran- 
cisco office  in  1 898.  The  company's  success 
IS  testimony  of  his  energetic  labor. 


John  J.   Sheahan 

SHARING  office  responsibilities  with  Harry 
L.  Roff,  general  agent  of  the  Home  In- 
surance Company,  is  John  J.  Sheahan,  who  is 
assistant  general  agent  for  the  same  company. 
Beginning  as  a  special  agent  in  June,  1892, 
Mr.  Sheahan  has  climbed  through  every  de- 
partment to  his  present  position  of  import- 
ance. 

Mr.  Sheahan  is  a  native  of  Toledo,  Ohio, 
where  he  was  born  January  29,  1 866.  He 
is    married   and   has   two    children. 

To  his  efforts  and  to  those  of  General  Agent 
Roff  have  been  due  the  success  of  the  Home 
Company,  which,  having  acquitted  itself  with 
Cicdit  in  the  days  following  the  great  fire,  is 
now  back  again  in  a  fine  building  in  the 
heart  of  the  underwriting  district. 


William 
Valentine  MacNevin 


WILLIAM  VALENTINE  MacNEVIN. 
vice-president  of  the  firm  of  Landgrebe, 
MacNevin  and  Jones,  one  of  the  foremost  of 
real  estate  and  insurance  agencies  m  San  Fran- 
cisco, vv^ith  offices  in  the  Clunie  Building,  525 
California  street,  w^as  born  in  San  Francisco 
ill  1 882.  He  is  a  great  grandson  of  William 
James  MacNevin,  the  Irish  patriot,  who  was 
an  associate  of  Robert  Emmett.  His  grand- 
father was  agent  for  the  vast  estates  of  Lord 
Rosse  in  Kings  County,  Ireland,  and  was  a 
noted  astronomer;  while  his  father,  Henry  P. 
MacNevin,  was  until  his  death  in  1 885  one 
of  the  prominent  civil  and  mining  engineers 
on    the   Pacific    Coast. 

William  V.  MacNevin  has  been  actively 
engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  for  the  past 
thirteen  years,  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the 
most  conservative  real  estate  experts  in  San 
Francisco.  His  thorough  acquaintance  with 
the  business  and  the  esteem  in  which  he  is 
held  by  bankers  and  other  business  men,  has 
ii;spired  great  confidence  in  his  judgment  upon 
the  buying  and  selling  of  real  estate. 


132 


MILTON  C.  CLARK 


133 


William   M.   Abbott 


To  BE  successful  in  whatever  calling  he 
may  adopt  may  well  be  the  ambition  of 
any  man.  Among  the  overcrowded  profes- 
sions open  to  the  young  man  of  the  present 
there  is  probably  none  in  which  success  is 
harder  of  attainment  than  that  of  the  law. 

William  Martin  Abbott  is  one  of  those 
individuals  whom  the  difficulties  besetting  the 
path  of  success  serve  only  to  stimulate  to  further 
effort,  as  his  present  position  in  San  Francisco 
will    demonstrate. 

Mr.  Abbott  was  born  m  San  Francisco 
on  March  17.  1872.  In  1893  he  grad- 
uated from  the  Hastings  College  of  Law. 
From  1 899  to  1 902  he  was  Deputy  Attorney 
General  for  the  state  of  California.  At  present 
he  is  general  attorney  for  the  United  Railroads 
of  San  Francisco,  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the 
of  San  Francisco. 


foremost    members    of    the    legal    fraternity 


134 


W.  H.  METSON 


135 


D.  E.  Alexander 


DANIEL  EARP  ALEXANDER,  attor- 
ney and  counsellor  at  law,  son  of  Ben- 
jamin Franklin  Alexander  and  Caroline  Way 
Kiveley  Alexander,  was  born  at  Jackson,  Miss., 
February  7,  1845,  but  has  lived  in  California 
ever  since  he  was  nine  years  old.  He  grad- 
uated from  the  Sacramento  High  School  m 
1 866,  and  a  few  years  later  began  the  prac- 
tice of  law.  Being  a  Democrat,  and  his  party 
not  being  permanently  dominant  in  the  govern- 
ment, Mr.  Alexander  has  never  sought  any 
political  preferment,  being  content  to  vote  at 
each  election  and  to  follow  steadily  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession.  For  more  than  twenty 
years  Mr.  Alexander  has  been  a  resident  of 
San   Francisco.       He   was   married    on    November    1 


3,    1881 


136 


W.  L.  Hathaway 


WL.  HATHAWAY,  manager  of  the 
•  San  Francisco  office  of  the  Mutual  Life 
Ir.surance  Company  of  New  York,  has  been 
in  the  employ  of  that  concern  for  twenty-two 
years,  having  spent  practically  his  entire  busi- 
ness life  with  it.  Born  in  Providence,  R.  I., 
in  1 867,  Mr.  Hathaway  comes  from  an  old 
New  Bedford,  Mass.,  family,  his  ancestors 
dating  back  to  the  early  Puritan  settlers  of  that 
district.  In  1893  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Caro  L.  Paulson,  of  Copenhagen,  Denmark, 
and  has  two  daughters,  the  Misses  Marie  and 
Mabel  Hathaway,  the  family  residing  at  the 
St.  Regis  apartments,  1925  Gough  street,  San 
Francisco.  Mr.  Hathaway  is  an  active  member  of  the  San  Francisco  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce, the  World's  Fair  Committee,  and  various  other  organizations  concerned  with  civic 
and  public  affairs. 


137 


JUDGE  W.  P.  LAWLOR 


138 


Robert    Forsyth 


FEW  men  can  boast  a  more  thorough  equip- 
ment for  their  special  hne  of  work  than 
IS  possessed  by  Robert  Forsyth,  consulting  en- 
gineer. Mr.  Forsyth  has  offices  in  the  Mer- 
chants'  Exchange   Building. 

Born  in  Lanarkshire,  Scotland,  in  1 846,  he 
received  his  training  in  the  shipbuilding  and  en- 
gineering works  of  Randolph,  Elder  &  Co., 
ol  Glasgow,  and  saw  service  later  with  the 
Pacific  Navigation  Steamship  Co.  He  was 
also  in  the  service  of  the  Pacific  Mail  Steam- 
ship Co.    for  a   number  of  years. 

Mr.     Forsyth     was     with     the     Risdon     Iron 
Works    for    seven    years    and    was    for    a    long  time  engineer-in-chief  to  the  Union  Iron  Works, 
San    Francisco.       He    also    served    as    president  of  the  Union  Iron  Works  Company. 

He    is    a    member    of    the    American    Society  of   Mechanical   Engineers,   the  Society  of  Naval 
Architects  and  Marine  Engineers,  and  the  Technical  Society   of   the    Pacific   Coast. 


139 


Charles    Kean    Harper 


CHARLES  KEAN  HARPER  was  bom 
in  San  Francisco  on  April  4,  1876.  His 
father  and  mother  were  both  of  English  birth. 
He  spent  his  youth  in  the  country  and  obtained 
his  early  education  in  the  country  schools.  For 
a  time  he  taught  school,  subsequently  attend- 
ing the  University  of  California,  entering  with 
the  class  of  1 904.  For  four  years  after  leav- 
ing college  he  was  on  the  road  as  a  commer- 
cial traveler.  During  this  time  he  studied  law 
and  immediately  after  passing  the  California 
Supreme  Court  examinations  he  began  practice 
in  San  Francisco,  having  risen  rapidly  to  the 
enjoyment  of  an  excellent  practice  and  a  posi- 
tion of  standing  before  the  bar  of  his  state. 
Mr.  Harper  is  a  Republican  in  politics.  He  is 
unmarried. 


143 


Will    L.    Greenbaum 


WILL  L.  GREENBAUM,  San  Fran- 
cisco's leading  impressario,  was  born  in 
Sacramento  in  1 866,  and  was  raised  and  edu- 
cated in  the  city  of  San  Francisco.  Graduat- 
ing from  the  Boys'  High  School,  he  made  a 
study  of  perfume  chemistry  and  for  many  years 
was  head  of  the  largest  perfume  manufactur- 
ing company  west  of  Chicago.  An  accom- 
plished musician,  he  organized  the  Hinrichs- 
Bcel  Symphony  Orchestra,  which  later  became 
the  San  Francisco  Symphony  Society,  with 
Fritz  Scheel  as  conductor.  Gradually  he  drifted 
into  the  managerial  profession,  associating  in 
business  with  Alfred  Bouvier.  After  the  death 
Oi  Bouvier,  Mr.  Greenbaum  gave  up  the  per- 
fume business  and  devoted  himself  to  theatrical, 
operatic     and     concert     attractions.        He     has 

bi'-ught  to  this  city  Pietro  Mascagni,  the  Metropolitan  Opera  Company,  the  Melba  Com- 
pc-ny,  the  San  Carlos  and  Milan  Opera  Companies,  the  Damrosch  Symphony  Orchestra,  the 
Chicago  Symphony  Orchestra,  Nordica,  Calve,  Eames,  Gadski,  Paderewski,  Hoffman,  Ysaye, 
Kreisler,  the  Ben  Greet  Shakespearian  Players,  Miss  Maud  Allan  and  many  other  attractions 
of  equal  note. 


STANLEY  MOORE 

Mr.  Moore  is  a  prominent  Attorney 

of  California 


142 


Patrick  J.  Calhoun 


PRESIDENT  of  the  United  Railroads  and 
one  of  the  most  prominent  street  railway 
men  in  all  America,  Patrick  J.  Calhoun  stands 
as  a  type  of  the  ever-resourceful,  energetic  and 
capable  business  leaders  of  the  day.  Born  in 
South  Carolina,  March  21.  1856.  the  fifth 
and  youngest  son  of  Andrew  Pickens  Calhoun, 
v/ho  was  the  eldest  son  of  the  great  states- 
man, John  C.  Calhoun,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  was  left  a  penniless  orphan  at  the  age 
of  nme.  The  best  of  American  blood  flows 
111  his  veins,  his  mother  being  a  descendant 
of  Mildred  Washington,  aunt  of  George  Wash- 
ington. 

With  characteristic  determination  of  his  fam- 
ily, he  set  to  work  to  educate  himself.  He  was  admitted  to  the  practice  of  law  at  the  age  of 
nineteen,  and  began  practice  in  St.  Louis.  Becoming  interested  in  problems  of  street  railway 
tr-.ffic,  he  abandoned  law  practice  to  engage  in  this  work.  He  effected  the  amalgamation 
of  various  railroads  in  the  Southern  states,  and  afterward  brought  the  control  of  practically  all 
public  utilities  into  the  hands  of  one  company  in  Pittsburg.  He  gathered  the  railroads  of  St. 
Louis  into  one  company  and  then  accomplished  the  same   thing  in   San   Francisco. 

Mr.  Calhoun  has  four  homes,  one  in  San  Francisco,  one  in  Charleston,  South  Carolina, 
one  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  one  in  New  York.  He  was  married  in  I  885  to  Miss  Sarah  Porter 
Williams    of    Charleston,    and    has    eight    children,   four  boys  and   four  girls. 


143 


G.  Albert  Lansburgh 


PERHAPS  the  architects  of  San  Francisco 
more  than  any  other  class  of  people  can 
be  termed  in  truth  the  "Men  Who  Made  San 
Francisco."  They  drew  the  plans  for  the 
actual  builders  to  work  upon,  and  much  credit 
is  due  them  for  the  work  done  since  the  great 
fire    of     1906. 

G.  Albert  Lansburgh  holds  an  enviable  po- 
sition among  the  architects  of  San  Francisco. 
Ke  was  born  at  Panama,  January  7,  1876,  and 
is  the  talented  son  of  talented  parents.  His 
n\other  was  a  famous  artist,  Rebecca  Pyke, 
and  his  father  was  a  prominent  merchant  of 
Pt  nama. 

G.   Albert   Lansburgh  studied  architecture   in  France    and     graduated     from     the     Ecole     des 
Beaux   Arts,    Paris.      He   was    also   awarded    an;edal  by  the  Paris  Salon  in    I  VO(D. 


144 


Edwin  G.  Bath 


EDWIN  G.    BATH  was  born   in    1879  at 
Bevier,    Missouri,   of   Welsh   and    English 


parents.  He  graduated  from  the  high  school 
at  Lewiston,  111.,  in  1898,  and  later  taught 
school  for  four  years,  at  the  same  time  taking 
up  the  life  insurance  business  for  the  New  York 
Life  Insurance  Company.  He  contmued  the 
inrurance  business  in  Illmois  until  1 904,  when 
he  moved  to  Los  Angeles  as  manager  of  a  de- 
partment for  the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance 
Company.  A  year  later  he  was  sent  to  San 
Fiancisco  as  the  company's  general  agent  of 
the  accident  and  health  department.  He  grad- 
uated from  the  Hastings  College  of  Law  in 
1 909,  and  is  making  a  specialty  of  insurance 
law.  He  was  married  in  1 904  and  has  one 
child,  a  daughter.  Mr.  Bath  belongs  to  the  University  of  California  Club,  Phi  Delta  Theta 
f^ternity,    and    Knights   of    Pythias.      He    is    a  Republican  in  politics. 


i45 


JAMES  N.  GILLETT 

Former  Governor  of  California 


146 


Adolph  Leopold  Weill 


AMONG  the  successful  lawyers  and  business 
men  of  San  Francisco,  there  is  probably 
none  more  deserving  of  being  included  in  a  work 
of   this   nature    than    Adolph    Leopold    Weill. 

Mr.  Weill  was  born  m  Petaluma,  Cal.,  Jan- 
uary 8,  1876,  of  a  family  that  had  lived  in 
California  since  the  golden  days  of  1  850.  To- 
day he  is  a  promment  and  respected  citizen 
of  San  Francisco,  in  addition  to  be  an  able  law- 
yer with  a  state-wide  practice. 

Mr.  Weill  has  always  been  a  Republican  and 
is  very  strong  in  his  political  views.  He  grad- 
uated from  the  University  of  California  in  1897 
and  from  the  Hastings  College  of  Law  in   I  899. 

He  has  in  late  years  represented  large  interests  in  the  various  oil  fields,  and  went  to  Washing- 
ton as  representative  of  the  oil  men  in  obtaining  a  modification  of  the  Pickett  Bill,  relating  to 
oil  land  entries. 


147 


L.  SCATERIA 
President  of  the 
Bank  of  Italy. 


148 


Edgar  M.  Wilson 


EDGAR  M.  WILSON  was  bom  in  Fayette 
County,  Ohio,  February  22,  1855.  He 
graduated  in  1874  at  the  University  of  Woos- 
ter;  was  admitted  to  practice  law  by  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Illinois  in  September,  1876;  practiced 
law  for  three  years  in  Chicago;  and  was  admitted 
to    practice    law    in    California    in    June,    1 880 

He  is  descended  from  Virginia  and  Massa- 
chusetts Colonial  families  which  have  produced 
many  emment  professional  men,  soldiers  and  states- 
men. His  father  and  father's  father  were  dis- 
tinguished clergymen  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 

In  July,  1  888,  he  married  Miss  Maud  Forbes, 
daughter  of  Alexander  Forbes  of  San  Rafael, 
and  by  her  has  two  children,  Maud  and  Edgar  Forbes. 

He  has  always  refused  public  office,  but  has  steadfastly    endeavored    to    promote    the    public 
good.      He  has  successfully  practiced  his  profession  in  this  state  for  thirty  years. 


149 


CAPTAIN 
WILLIAM  MATSEN 


150 


James  Woods 


JAMES  WOODS,  manager  of  the  St. 
Francis  hotel,  needs  no  introduction  in  San 
Francisco.  The  work  he  has  done  in  connec- 
tion with  this  splendid  hostelry  is  known  not 
only  in  San  Francisco  but  all  over  the  world. 
Mr.  Woods  is  the  original  hail-fellow-well- 
met  and  is,  without  doubt,  one  of  the  greatest 
hotel  men  in  the  world.  He  is  an  advocate 
of  Jeffersonian  Democratic  principles.  In  1 898 
he  married  Miss  May  B.    Healy  of  San   Fran- 


151 


Walter  D.  Wagner 


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SALTER  D.  WAGNER,  long  recognized 
as  one  of  the  most  popular  and  influential 
office  holders  of  Southern  California,  was  born 
in  San  Bernardino,  and  in  his  native  city  rose  to 
political  prominence,  being  elected  for  three  suc- 
cessive terms  to  the  office  of  auditor  of  San  Ber- 
nardino County.  He  is  now  secretary  of  the 
State  Railroad  Commission.  His  popularity  has 
not  by  any  means  been  confined  to  Southern 
California,  for  two  of  the  greatest  fraternal  orders 
in  the  state  have  honored  him.  Long  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Native  Sons,  he  held  every  office 
in  Arrowhead  Parlor  of  his  home  city,  and  then 
rose  in  the  grand  lodge  until  he  became  grand 
president.  In  similar  fashion  did  he  progress  in 
the  ranks  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  until  he  was  elected  grand  chancellor  of  the  California  do- 
main. He  has  an  acquaintance  extending  all  over  the  State,  and  has  long  been  recognized  as 
one   of  the   most  efficient  and   painstaking   clerical  office  holders  in  the  Counties  of  California. 


152 


JAMES  A. 
SORENSON 


153 


J.  J.  DUNNE 


154 


E.  Myron  Wolf 


EiMYRON  WOLF,  attorney-at-law,  has 
•  long  been  identified  with  insurance  matters  in 
the  West.  This  is  due,  in  a  measure,  to  the 
fact  that  Mr.  Wolf  has  made  a  specialty  of 
msurance  law,  but  in  greater  measure  to  the  fact 
that  for  eight  years  he  was  State  Insurance 
Commissioner. 

Mr.  Wolf  was  born  in  San  Francisco  on 
October  19,  1871.  He  was  educated  at  the 
University  of  California,  beginning  practice  here, 
in  1897  when  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
He  is  a  Republican  politically  and  is  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  PaciSc  Surety  Comoany. 


1511 


Carlton  Hobbs  Wall 


IT  DOES  not  require  a  very  great  stretch 
of  the  imagination  to  see  that  those  engaged 
in  the  lumber  business  have  a  good  claim  to  be 
numbered  among  the  "Men  Who  Made  San 
Francisco"  in  the  most  literal  sense. 

Carlton  Hobbs  Wall  is  a  native  of  California. 
His  parents  crossed  the  plains  from  Missouri  in 
1  844  and  settled  in  Oregon  City.  From  there 
they  removed  shortly  after  to  Crescent  City, 
California,  and  engaged  in  the  lumber  business. 

After  leaving  college  C.  H.  Wall  also  became 
connected  with  the  lumber  business  and  built 
up    the    concern    now    known    as    Hobbs,    Wall  &  Co. 

Carlton  Hobbs  Wall  is  president  of  the  Techau  Tavern  Company  and  of  the  Wall  Estate  Co. 

In   addition   to  other   business  connections,   he  has  large  interests  in  the  California  oil  fields. 


156 


R.  H.  PEASE 
President  of  the 
Goodyear  Rubber  Co. 


157 


E.  P.  Vandercook 


EDWARD  PICKETT  VANDERCOOK 
is  a  native  of  San  Francisco  and  has  made 
his  home  in  this  city  ever  since  his  b.rth  here  on 
January  31,  1  864.  His  ancestors  were  among 
the  early  Dutch  and  English  settlers  in  New 
^  ork,  in  which  state  his  father  was  born,  his 
mother  being  a  native  of  Michigan.  Mr.  Van- 
dercook makes  a  business  of  handling  invest- 
ments. He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  but  has 
never  held  public  office.  He  received  his  col- 
legiate education  at  Northwestern  University  and 
Amherst. 


158 


PHILLIP  A.  STANTON 


159 


Percy  E.  Towne 


THE  proud  possessor  of  one  of  the  finest  law 
libraries  in  the  state,  and  heir  to  one  of  the 
largest  practices  in  the  law  profession,  Percy  E. 
Towne  IS  considered  one  of  the  fortunate  citizens 
of  San  Francisco. 

Percy  E.  Towne  was  born  in  Chicago,  111., 
August  13th,  1875.  His  parents  were  of  old 
New  England  stock  from  Massachusetts  and 
Vermont.  He  graduated  from  college  in  1  898, 
and  became  associated  with  Reuben  H.  Lloyd. 
When  Reuben  Lloyd  died  Percy  E.  Towne 
became  his  successor,  and  in  the  conduct  of  his 
large  practice  pays  special  attention  to  bank- 
ing, probate  and  corporation  law.  His  office 
are  in  the  Chronicle  building,  San  Francisco. 


160 


JOHN  S. 
PARTRIDGE 


161 


James  Morris  Troutt 


JAMES  MORRIS  TROUTT,  Judge  of  the 
Superior  Court  since  1  890,  has  established 
a  reputation  for  honesty  and  uprightness  in  judi 
cial  affairs  that  marks  him  at  once  as  a  man 
of  integrity  and  a  judge  of  legal  perspicuity  with 
few  equals  in  this  country. 

Judge  Troutt  was  born  at  Roxbury,  Mass.. 
Dec.  20,  1847.  In  1871  he  graduated  from 
Harvard  University.  He  was  a  classmate  with 
U.  S.  Senator  Henry  Cabot  Lodge,  former 
U.  S.  Attorney  General  Charles  J.  Bonaparte 
and  Bishop  Lawrence  of  Massachusetts. 

He  is  a  staunch   Republican   and  one  of  the 
most   respected  jurists  m   California. 


162 


THEO.  J.  ROCHE 


163 


Albert  Warren  Thornton 


A. 


\/.  THORNTON,  manager  at  San  Fran- 
cisco for  the  London  Assurance  Corpora- 
tion and  Niagara  Fire  Insurance  Company,  suc- 
ceeding the  late  Mr.  Wm.  J.  Landers,  was 
born  at  Perth,   Ontario,  in    1865. 

After  graduating  from  college  he  came  to  the 
United  States  and  entered  upon  his  insurance 
career  in  Minnesota  in  1887  as  local  agent. 

Mr.  Thornton  came  to  the  Pacific  Coast  in 
1890,  locatmg  at  Tacoma,  from  1892  till  1901 
he  was  special  agent  on  the  Pacific  Coast  for 
the  New  York  Underwriters.  After  resigning 
from  the  New  York  Underwriters  he  entered 
the  service  of  Former  Manager  Landers  and 
following  the  San  Francisco  conflagration  was  called  to  this  city  by  Manager  Landers  and 
placed  in  charge  of  the  settlement  of  the  agency's  extensive  loss  claims,  which  were  settled  to  the 
complete  satisfaction  of  insured  and  company  Mr.  Thornton  is  exceedingly  popular  with  his 
associates    and    has    always    taken    a    prominent  part  in  matters  pertaining  to  his  calling. 


164 


CHARLES  WESLEY  REED 


163 


Marcus  L.  Samuels 


from  occasional   public   advocacy   of   the   party 
voting  his  time  exclusively  to   his  business. 


MARCUS  LORNE  SAMUELS,  attomey- 
at  law,  was  born  m  Oakland,  California, 
his  father,  an  Englishman  by  birth,  having  been 
one  of  that  city's  leading  merchants.  His  mothei 
was  a  native  San  Franciscan,  and  during  her  life- 
time was  prominent  in  fraternal  circles  through- 
out the  state. 

Mr.  Samuels  was  educated  at  the  University 
of  California.  Later  he  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  Although  specializing  in 
corporation  work,  particularly  representing  many 
large  hotel  interests,  he  had  conducted  a  general 
practice,  his  offices  being  in  the  Pacific  build 
ing. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  Mr.  Samuels,  asidf 
'  principles,  has  not  been  an  active  politician,  de 


166 


W.  J.   MORGAN 

Mr.  Morgan  is  a  well  known 
Real  Estate  Dealer 


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167 


Isaac  Henry  Spiro 


ISAAC  HENRY  SPIRO  is  one  of  the  mosi 
prominent  aerated  beverage  manufacturers 
on  the  Coast.  In  fact,  the  Majestic  Bottling 
Company  of  San  Francisco,  which  he  controls 
does  the  largest  soda  water  business  west  of  the 
Rocky  Mountains. 

He  was  born  in  Queensland,  Australia,  Sep 
tember  30,  1  863,  where  he  spent  his  youth  and 
graduated   from   Brisbane   University. 

Besides  being  attentive  to  his  business,  Mr 
Spiro  has  found  time  to  be  actively  interested 
in  the  politics  of  this  city.  He  is  affiliated 
with  the  Republican  party  and  is  at  present  a 
police  commissioner. 


168 


J.  D.  SPRECKELS,  JR. 


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Joseph  Rothschild 


ONE  of  the  leading  civil  and  commerc 
lawyers  of  San  Francisco  today  is  Josej 
Rothschild,  who  was  born  in  this  city,  and  w 
graduated  from  the  University  of  California  b 
fore  going  to  Yale.  From  this  latter  famous  ur 
versity  he  graduated  in  1  879.  He  was  then  a 
mitted  to  law  practice  in  Connecticut  and  tl 
same  year  in  California.  He  is  now  advoca 
for  some  of  the  important  mercantile  houses 
San  Francisco.  He  was  elected  to  the  Boai 
of  Education  in  1889-1890,  is  a  Mason,  pa 
grand  president  of  the  B'nai  B'rith,  past  pres 
dent  of  the  Sons  of  Israel,  president  of  the  B'n 
B'rith  Hall  Association,  a  member  of  the  Nati^ 
Sons  and  prominent  in  the  Concordia  and  Ya 
Clubs. 

He  is  ex-chairman  of  the  Democratic  Count 
Committee,  and  in  I  903  was  acting  chairman  ( 
the  Democratic  State  Central  Committee.  H 
IS  also  president  of  the  South  of  Market  Stre 
Improvement  Association,  and  a  member  of  tl" 
executive  committee  of  the  Greater  San  Frai 
cisco  Committee. 


170 


DR.  THOS.  SHUMATE 


171 


James  E.  Pemberton 


JAMES  E.  PEMBERTON.  counted  among 
the  progressive  men  of  affairs  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, writes  fiis  home  address  as  Ukiah,  Mendo- 
cino county,  California.  Born  in  Missouri  ir 
1861,  he  came  to  California  as  a  young  man 
and  attended  the  Hastings  College  of  Law,  grad- 
uating in  1 886.  In  that  same  year  he  was 
married  at  San  Diego  to  Miss  Emogene  J.  Bray 
ton,  three  children  having  been  the  result  of  theii 
union. 

Mr.  Pemberton  established  law  offices  in 
Ukiah,  and  in  1903  and  1904  was  district 
attorney  of  Mendocino  county.  He  is  a  Demo- 
crat politically,  and  in  1910  was  the  candidate 
of  his  party  for  the  office  of  attorney  general.  His  progress  in  his  profession  has  been  such 

that  in  recent  years  he  has  been  obliged  to  maintain  an  office  in  San  Francisco,  where  he  is 
constantly  increasing  his  number  of  clients  and  his  volume  of  important  business.  He  still  main- 
tains his  Ukiah  office  and  residence,  however. 


172 


LATE  D.  SAMUELS 


173 


Hartley  Fiske  Peart 


HARTLEY'  FISKE  PEART  was  born  in 
San  Francisco  in  1877.  His  father,  Ben- 
jamin Peart,  was  a  pioneer  mining  man,  being 
for  many  years  associated  in  big  mining  deals  with 
Alvinza  Hayward.  His  mother  is  now  a  trus- 
tee of  Mills  College  and  a  director  of  the  Chil- 
drens'  Hospital  of  this  city.  Mr.  Peart  was  edu- 
cated m  the  San  Francisco  public  schools,  sub- 
sequently attending  the  University  of  California, 
whence  he  graduated  in  1 898.  He  then  at- 
tended the  Hastings  College  of  Law  and  grad- 
uated from  that  institution  in  1901,  immediately 
afterward  entering  on  the  practice  of  law  in  San 
Francisco.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics  and  is 
attorney  for  the  State  Board  of  Fish  and  Game 
Commissioners.  Mr.  Peart  was  married  in  June, 
1  909,  to  Miss  Loretta  O'Brien.      He  is  a  member  of  the 


Family  Club. 


174 


T.  B.  WALKER 


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175 


John   McGaw 


THE  head  of  the  well  known  real  estate 
firm  of  John  McGaw  &  Company  was 
born  in  Brentford,  England,  July  3,  1865.  His 
father  was  of  Scotch  and  his  mother  of  English 
birth.  Mr.  McGaw  left  England  in  1  889,  com- 
ing to  America  in  the  service  of  the  Bank  of  Brit- 
ish North  America.  He  first  went  to  Montreal, 
was  then  moved  to  New  York,  where  he  remained 
for  seven  years,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  was 
transferred  to  the  San  Francisco  office  of  the 
same  concern.  In  1 900  he  quit  the  banking 
institution  to  become  a  member  of  the  real  estate 
firm  of  O.  D.  Baldwin  &  Son.  Within  two 
years  both  O.  D.  Baldwin  and  his  son  retired 
from  the  business,  leaving  McGaw  to  carry  it  on 
as  sole  proprietor  under  its  original  name.  Aftei  the  big  fire  of  1 906  the  name  was  changed 
to  that  of  John  McGaw  &  Company.  Mr  McGaw  was  married  in  1 898  to  Blanche  E. 
Baldwin.      They  have  three  children. 


176 


J.  C.  CEBRIAN 


177 


Augustus  S.  Macdonald 


AUGUSTUS  S.  MACDONALD  was  born 
in  San  Francisco,  being  descended  from  an 
old  Scotch  family.  He  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  and  graduated  from  Sackett's  Col- 
lege. He  has  always  been  engaged  in  develop- 
ment work  and  has  been  identified  with  some  of 
the  largest  land,  power,  water,  mining  and  rail- 
road enterprises  in  the  State.  Mr.  Macdonald 
in  his  private  life  has  been  long  known  as  a  gener- 
ous patron  of  the  arts,  in  recognition  of  which 
he  holds  a  life  membership  in  the  San  Francisco 
Art  Association.  He  owns  the  largest  private 
collection  of  books  relating  to  California  that 
is  in  existence,  and  he  is  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  American  Historical  Society  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  He  has  also  always  taken  an  interest 
in  the  cultivation  of  flowers.  He  has  held  public  offices  as  president  of  the  Park  and  Playgrounas 
Commission  of  Oakland. 


178 


J.  E.  HENRY  L.  T.  TERKELSON 

Leading  Photographers  of  San  Francisco 


179 


John  O'Donnell 


JOHN  O'DONNELL,  attomey-at-law,  was 
born  at  Belvidere,  Illinois,  but  has  been  a 
Californian  by  adoption  for  many  years.  He 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of 
California  in  1 903.  Immediately  after  the  fire 
of  1 906  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Judge 
D.  E.  Alexander,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Alexander  &  O'Donnell.  The  firm  still  con- 
tinues. 


180 


W.  J.  DUTTON 


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John  Morrisey 


JOHN  MORRISES'  who  for  the  past 
twenty  years  has  been  Manager  of  the 
Orpheum  Theatre,  San  Francisco,  can  truth- 
fully boast  that  his  friends  are  legion.  Every- 
body knows  and  hkes  "Genial  John"  as  he  is 
affectionately  called  and  he  always  has  a  willing 
ear  and  a  kindly  handshake  for  every  one  he 
meets.  Morrisey  is  to  San  Francisco  what  Beau 
Brummell  was  to  London  in  the  days  of  the 
Prince  Regent  for  his  sartorial  equipment  is  al- 
ways perfect  and  he  has  long  enjoyed  the  refu- 
tation of  being  the  best  dressed  man  in  the  state. 
In  his  early  life  he  was  highly  successful  as  a 
singer  and  dancer  and  an  immense  favorite 
throughout  the  country.  He  has  always  been 
a  careful  man  and  has  provided  against  a 
rainy  day.  He  recently  built  himself  a  hand- 
some manor  in  the  Piedmont  Hills.  He  prob- 
ably knows  more  theatrical  people  than  any 
other  man  in  the  United  States  and  it  cannot 
but  be  a  consolation  to  him  to  know  that  the 
performer  has  yet  to  be  discovered  who  has  an 
unkind  word  to  say  of  John  Morrisey. 


162 


U.  S.  WEBB 
Attorney  General  of  California 


183 


Smith  O'Brien 


SMITH  O'BRIEN  was  born  in  Cork, 
Ireland,  in  1  868,  and  comes  of  a  promi- 
nent Irish  family,  his  mother  being  a  sister  of 
Sir  Abraham  Sutton. 

He  came  to  San  Francisco  in  1887  and 
there  studied  in  the  offices  of  various  prominent 
architects.  In  1 902  he  entered  into  a  part- 
nership with  F.  H.  Meyer  under  the  firm  name 
of  Meyer  &  O'Brien.  They  were  the  archi- 
tects for  many  of  the  largest  buildings  in  the 
city  both  before  and  after  the  fire  of  1 906. 
Among  these  buildmgs  are  the  Rialto,  Monad- 
nock,  Humboldt  Bank  and  office  building, 
Hastmgs,  Gallen,  Foxcroft,  Hotel  Cadillac,  and 
many   others. 

In  January  1 908  the  partnership  with  F. 
H.  Meyer  was  dissolved  and  since  then  Smith 
O'Brien  has  practiced  his  profession  alone. 
Among  the  prominent  buildings  which  he  has 
designed  are  the  Rucker-Fuller  Desk  Com- 
pany's building  on  Mission  street,  the  Youths 
Directory,  Burns'  Hammam  Baths,  and  the 
auditorium  and  lodge  building  of  the  Knights 
of  Columbus. 

He  was  married  in  I  899.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Bohemian,  Commonwealth  and  Auto- 
mobile Clubs,  and  also  of  the  S.  F.  Chapter 
of  architects  and  the  Knights  of  Columbus. 


184 


WILLIAM  RIX 

One  of  San  Francisco's 
Leading  Attorneys 


185 


John  Alfred  Marsh 


COUNSELOR-AT-LAW,  president  of  the 
Pierce- Arrow  Sales  Co.,  and  a  member 
of  a  half  dozen  of  the  leading  clubs  and  organi- 
zations of  San  Francisco,  John  Alfred  Marsh 
stands  as  a  type  of  those  men  who  have  done 
much  towards  the  development  of  our  city. 

Born  in  San  Rafael,  California,  in  1871,  he 
graduated  from  University  of  California  with  a 
degree  of  A.  B.  at  the  age  of  22  years,  and 
was    admitted    to    the    bar    m    1 894. 

He  applied  his  legal  training  and  powers  of 
organization  to  the  automobile  business  and 
his  ability  was  soon  recognized.  For  several 
years  he  has  been  president  of  the  Pierce-Ar- 
row  Sales  Co.,  and  secretary  and  attorney  for 
PaciSc   Coast   Auto   Supplies   Jobbers'    Club. 


186 


JUDGE 

M.  C.  SLOSS 


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187 


Thornwell  Mullally 


THORNWELL  MULLALLY,  assistant 
to  the  president  of  the  United  Raih-oads 
of  San  Francisco,  was  born  at  Columbia,  S.  C, 
January  1  7,  1 868.  He  is  a  son  of  Francis 
Patrick  Mullally,  by  birth  an  Irishman  and  one 
of  the  distinguished  Presbyterian  clergymen  of 
the   South. 

Mr.  Mullally  was  educated  at  Adger  College, 
South  Carolina,  and  the  University  of  Virginia 
Law  School,  graduating  subsequently  from  Yale 
with  the  class  of  1  892.  He  gained  much  college 
distinction  as  editor  of  the  Yale  Literary  Maga- 
zine and  as  one  of  the  \  ale  team  m  the  debates 
of  1 892.  His  brilliant  scholarship  won  him 
the  Thomas  Glasby  Waterman  prize  for  scholarship. 

Leaving  college,  Mr.  Mullally  continued  his  legal  studies  at  the  New  York  Law  school,  and 
began  practice  as  soon  as  he  graduated  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Arterbury  &  Mullally. 
The  firm  handled  much  big  business,  and  Mr.  Mullally,  having  shown  great  executive  ability 
and  a   grasp  of  big  affairs,   was  asked   to   come  to  San  Francisco  in  his  present  position. 

He  arrived  here  early  in  1906,  and  had  hardly  adjusted  himself  to  local  conditions  when 
came  the  great  disaster  that  threw  the  city  into  chaos.  No  greater  testimonial  of  Mr.  Mullally's 
ability  as  an  executive  can  be  given  than  to  relate  that  within  twenty-four  hours  after  the 
earthquake  and  fire  had  laid  the  city's  business  section  in  ruins,  he  had  the  street  cars  running 
in  Fillmore  street  on  their  regular  schedule. 


183 


W.  S.  MILLER 


189 


Roy   Bernard  Lindsay 


ROY  BERNARD  LINDSAY  is  a  widely 
known  member  of  San  Francisco's  younger 
business  set,  and  has  won  his  standing  in  the 
business  community  by  unswerving  attention  to 
his  duties.  He  has  never  held  public  office, 
nor  has  his  time  permitted  him  to  take  more 
than  a  passive  interest  in  politics.  Mr.  Bernard 
was  born  in  Wisconsin  on  February  6,  1 876. 
He  has  lived  in  this  State  for  many  years.  He 
IS  manager  of  the  Johnson  Service  Company 
for  California  and  Nevada,  and  has  offices  in 
the  Monadnock  building. 


190 


JAMES  B.  DUFFY 


191 


Dr.  C.  A.  Glover 


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,R.   COSMOS   A.   GLOVER  is  one  of 

the  most  widely  known  of  Native  Sons. 
He  was  born-  in  San  Francisco  on  June  3, 
1873.  His  mother  was  a  native  of  Ireland, 
while  his  father,  Andrew  Glover,  who  was 
born  in  Austria,  has  been  for  forty-three  years 
official  interpreter  of  languages  in  the  crimmal 
courts  of  San  Francisco,  having  been  for  rivc 
years  before  that  time  a  police  officer.  Dr. 
Glover  graduated  from  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia Medical  Department  in  1  894.  For  five 
years  he  was  a  surgeon  in  the  Emergency  Hospi- 
tal service,  and  is  now  autopsy  surgeon  to 
Coroner  Walsh.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Native  Sons,  Young 
Men's  Institute,  Red  Men,  Druids  and  Eagles,  besides  being  physician  for  each  of  these  fraterni- 
ties. He  was  married  in  1897  to  Lottie  L.  Bralich,  and  has  two  children,  a  boy  aged  1  I 
and  a  eirl  aged  9. 


192 


DR.  W.  B.  COFFEY 


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193 


William  H.  Toepke 


TV/  ILLIAM  HENRY  TOEPKE,  architect, 
was  born  in  San  Francisco  on  July  1 2, 
1870.  He  attended  the  public  schools  of  the 
city,  and  then  entered  the  office  of  William 
Mooser  in  1 886  to  study  architecture.  Four 
years  later  he  became  an  employee  of  C.  I. 
Havens,  with  whom,  in  1897  he  formed  a  part- 
nership under  the  name  of  Havens  &  Toepke. 
He  has  designed  many  beautiful  residences 
both  in  San  Francisco  and  down  the  Penin- 
sula, notably  at  San  Mateo,  Menlo  Park  and 
Palo  Alto.  Among  prominent  buildings  he 
has  designed  since  the  fire  of  1 906  are  the 
Mackey  building,  the  Doe  Estate  Co.  block, 
and  the  office  building  for  the  Hornlein  In- 
vestment Company.  He  is  a  member  of  the  San  Francisco  chapter  of  Architects  and  an 
associate  member   of   the   American    Institute   of  Architects. 


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194 


THOMAS  B.  DOZIER 


195 


George  H.  Stoffels 


GEORGE  HENRY  STOFFELS,  man 
ager  of  the  George  H.  Stoffels  Co.,  build 
ers,  is  one  of  the  younger  set  of  business  men  who 
has  advanced  with  rapid  strides  since  embark 
ing  in  the  local  field.  Mr.  Stoffels  was  born  op 
December  23,  1876,  in  Racine,  Wisconsin.  His 
father  was  a  native  of  Germany,  while  his  mothei 
was  born  in  Freeport,  111.  Mr.  Stoffels  earlj 
became  interested  in  building,  and  through  work 
in  every  department  of  it  became  a  master  ol 
the  business.  He  arrived  in  San  Francisco  or 
November  6,  1906,  and  in  the  rebuilding  period 
since  the  fire  has  succeeded  in  making  his  firrr. 
one  of  the  prominent  ones  in  its  line.  Mr.  Stof 
fels  was  married  on  October  1  0,  1  899,  to  Miss 
Huldah  J.  Nelson. 


196 


A.  K.  DETWILER 


197 


James  D.  Phelan 


JAMES  D.  PHELAN  has  been  active  since 
the  disaster  of  1 906  in  pubHc  work  and 
private  enterprise.  After  the  disaster,  he  was 
elected  Chairman  of  the  Relief  and  Red  Cross 
Funds,  and  was  designated  by  President  Roose- 
velt as  the  custodian  of  the  Relief  Funds,  amount 
ing  to  $9,000,000.  He  has  also  served  under 
Mayor  Taylor's  administration  as  a  member  ol 
the  Board  of  Park  Commissioners,  and  was  seni 
by  the  Board  of  Supervisors  as  chairman  of  a 
committee  of  citizens  to  appear  before  Congress 
in  behalf  of  the  Hetch  Hetchy  water  supply 
The  House  committee  reported  favorably  just 
before  Congress  adjourned,  and  the  people  voted 
for  the  bonds. 

Mr.  Phelan  has  erected  one  of  the  largest  and  best  equipped  office  buildings  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  he  has  engaged  in  much  construction  work  both  in  San  Francisco,  San  Jose,  and  othei 
places.  He  is  President  of  the  Mutual  Savings  Bank,  and  the  Hall  Association  of  the  Native 
Sons.  He  is  prominent  also  in  the  management  of  the  First  National  Bank,  which  erected  one 
of  the  handsomest  bank  buildings  down  town  Mr.  Phelan  is  a  San  Franciscan,  and  has 
always  been  devoted  to  the  welfare  of  his  native  city,  which  he  served  as  Mayor  for  five  years. 
His  activities  are  multifarious. 


1?8 


H.  V.  RAMSDELL 

Mr.  Ramsdell  is  Manager  of  the 
Bullock  &  Jones  Tailoring  Co. 


199 


Hamden  Holmes  Noble 


/^  NE  of  San  Francisco's  most  prominent  busi- 
ness men  is  Hamden   H.    Noble   the  presi- 
dent of  the  Northern  Cahfornia  Power  Company. 

Mr.  Noble  has  long  been  a  resident  of  San 
Francisco,  and  has  been  identified  with  im- 
portant busmess  enterprises  in  California. 

He  was  a  leading  broker  in  San  Francisco  in 
the  days  of  the  Comstock  boom,  and  is  reputed 
to  have  made  a  great  deal  of  money  in  those 
days. 

Mr.  Noble  was  born  at  Fairfield,  Maine,  Au- 
gust 1 6,  1 844.  He  is  a  staunch  Republican 
in  politics  and  believes  in  good  government. 
It  was  he  who  started  the  Cypress  Lawn  Ceme- 
tery Association.  He  also  organized  the  Kes- 
wick Electric  Power  Company,  which  has  been  merged  into  the  Northern  California  Power  Com- 
pany, and  in  addition  to  being  president  of  this  company,  he  is  also  president  of  the  Noble  Elec- 
tric Steel  Company. 


200 


JAMES  A. 
DEVOTO 


^^^^^*v. 


201 


Matthew  O'Brien 


MATTHEW  O'BRIEN  is  a  member  of  the 
architectural  firm  of  O'Brien  &  Werner, 
one  of  the  most  prominent  in  its  line  in  the  en- 
tire city.  He  is  a  native  of  San  Francisco 
and  for  the  past  ten  years  has  been  practicing 
his  profession  here.  Since  the  great  fire  he 
has  planned  and  superintended  the  construc- 
tion of  many  big  buildings,  among  them  being  the 
following: 

Princess  Theater,  Valencia  Theatre,  Garrick 
Theatre,  Scottish  Rite  Temple,  Sutter  and  Van 
Ness  Avenue;  Scottish  Rite  Temple,  Oak- 
land; C.  J.  Heeseman  Building,  Oakland; 
Golden  Eagle  Hotel,  apartment  house  for  the 
Biber  Estate,  new  Lowell  High  school,  and 
many  others. 


202 


GARRET  W.  McENERNEY 

Mr.  McEnerney  is  a  well  known  Attorney 

of  San  Francisco. 


203 


Morris  Meyerfeld,  Jr. 


MORRIS  MEYERFELD,  JR.,  president 
of  the  Orpheum  Circuit  is  one  of  San 
Francisco's  most  prominent  and  patriotic  citizens 
and  is  always  enthusiastically  energetic  in  fur- 
thering the  success  of  any  movement  for  the  ad- 
vancement of  this  city.  He  is  indeed  a  man  of 
affairs  and  has  in  addition  to  his  theatrical  en- 
terprises extensive  property  interests  in  different 
parts  of  the  state.  Mr.  Meyerfeld  is  also  a  di- 
rector of  the  Anglo  and  London,  Pans  National 
Bank  and  a  member  of  the  Concessions  and  Ad- 
missions Committee  of  the  World's  Fair.  He 
is  active  in  social  life  and  belongs  to  the  Union 
League  and  several  other  leading  local  clubs. 
Although  a  clever  and  successful  business  man 
Mr.  Meyerfeld  is  immensely  popular  and  has 
won  the  approbation  and  esteem  of  those  he  has 
been  brought  in  contact  with  by  his  just  and, 
at  the  same  time,  generous  methods. 


204 


T.  C.  JUDKINS 
Attorney  at  Law 


205 


Frank  Murphy 


ONE  of  the  most  widely  known  and  most 
able  lawyers  of  the  state  of  California, 
and  one  who  has  figured  in  as  many  important 
cases  in  the  state  as  any  member  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Bar  is  Frank  Murphy. 

hrank  Murphy  was  born  at  Elmira,  N.  Y., 
December  14,  1872.  He  came  to  California 
in  1895,  and  took  up  his  residence  in  Watson- 
ville,  where  he  soon  demonstrated  his  ability 
in  the  practice  of  the  law. 

He  continued  to  practice  in  Watsonville  un- 
til his  reputation  outgrew  the  possibilities  of 
a  town  of  a  few  thousand  inhabitants,  and 
in    1 90 1    he  moved  to  San  Francisco. 

He  has  since  been  very  prominent  in  munici- 
pal affairs,  and  today  is  one  of  the  most  popu- 
lar lawyers  in  the  state  of  California. 


236 


L.  C.  MULLEGARTH 


207 


W.  L.  Hughson 


WILLIAM  LEONARD  HUGHSON 
is  president  of  the  Standard  Motor  Car 
Company  and  of  Hughson  &  Merton,  Inc.,  rep- 
resentatives of  Eastern  manufacturers  in  hard- 
ware, automobile  sundries  and  automobiles.  He 
was  born  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  in  1  869,  com- 
ing to  California  twenty  years  later  and  living 
here  for  a  year.  He  then  returned  to  Buffalo, 
but  in  a  few  months  grew  homesick  for  San 
P  rancisco  and  came  back  to  this  city,  where 
he  has  made  his  home  ever  since.  His  pres- 
ent business  was  started  in  I  892  in  very  humble 
style.  Now  it  has  branch  offices  all  over  the 
Pacific  Coast  and  handles  gross  sales  aggregat- 
ing one  million  dollars  annually. 

The  firm  suffered  great  loss  in  the  fire  of  I  906, 
but  has  since  fully  recuperated.  Mr.  Hugh- 
son  was  an  active  assistant  to  Mrs.  Merrill,  act- 
ing president  of  the  Red  Cross,  directly  after 
the  fire.  He  also  erected  the  first  frame  busi- 
ness building  in  Market  street  following  the  con- 
flagration. He  is  actively  aiding  the  collection 
of  funds   for   the    Panama-Pacific   Exposition. 

Mr.  Hughson  holds  many  positions  of  im- 
portance in  the  business  world,  being  a  direc- 
tor in  a  number  of  corporations.  He  is  married 
and   has   two  children. 


208 


W.  A.  WENZELBURGER 


209 


J.  E.  White 


JAMES  EVANS  WHITE  is  a  native  of 
Iowa,  having  been  born  in  that  state  on 
November  8,  1870.  He  lived  there  until  1896, 
when  he  came  to  California.  He  had  previously 
obtained  a  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  at  Cornell 
College,  Iowa,  and  after  arriving  in  this  state 
he  attended  the  Hastings  Coilere  of  Law,  gradu- 
ating with  a  Bachelor  of  Laws  degree  in  1902. 
Since  that  time  he  has  been  practicing  his  pro- 
fession in  San  Francisco,  having  offices  in  the 
Monadnock  building.  He  is  a  Republican  in 
politics,  affiliating  with  the  independent  wing  of 
the  party.  He  was  married  in  1 904  to  Miss 
Lela  Allen  of  Riverside.  Mr.  White  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  University  of  California  and  Common- 
wealth Clubs,  the  Bar  Association  of  San  Francisco  and  of  the  State  and  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  and  has  been  general  secretary  and  president  of  the  California  Christian  Endeavor 
L^nion  and  vice-president  of  the  World's  Christian  Endeavor  Union. 


210 


WALLACE  A.  WISE 
Well  known  Attorney  of  San  Francisco 


Percy  W.  Treat 


PERCY  WEBSTER  TREAT  is  secretary 
of  the  California  Jockey  Club.  A  son  of 
Webster  and  Hannah  J.  Treat,  he  was  born  in 
Franklin,  Maine,  November  26,  1 866.  His 
great-great  grandfather,  Robert  Treat,  was 
colonial  governor  of  Connecticut,  and  the 
family  genealogical  tree  can  be  traced 
back  400  years  in  America  and  Eng- 
land. Mr.  Treat's  father  was  one  of  the 
prominent  fruit  growers  of  California  during  his 
lifetime,  owning  ranches  in  Butte,  Yolo,  Yuba 
and  Contra  Costa  Counties.  He  was  one  of 
the  charter  members  of  the  California  Fruit  Grow- 
ers' Association.  Mr.  Treat  is  widely  known  all 
over  the  West.  He  was  married  in  1893  to  Miss  Sara  A.  Slayback,  and  has  a  daughter. 
Miss  Cecil,  who  is  sixteen  years  old. 


212 


LOUIS  NATHAN 


11 


213 


Frank    B.    Anderson 


FRANK  BANTOW  ANDERSON  is 
president  of  the  Bank  of  California.  He 
was  born  in  Macon,  Georgia,  July  15,  1863, 
being  a  son  of  George  Wayne  and  Katherine 
Berrien  Anderson,  and  being  descended  from 
Highland  Scotch  and  French  Huguenot  an- 
cestry. Mr.  Anderson  received  his  education 
in  New  York  State.  He  has  been  prominently 
identified  with  California  banking  interests  for 
mc.ny  years,  and  besides  his  present  position  is 
a  director  in  a  number  of  corporations.  Being 
born  in  the  South  in  the  midst  of  war  times, 
Mr.  Anderson  is  naturally  a  Democrat.  He 
was  married  in  1 882  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Jad- 
win,    and    has   one    child,    a    son    22    years    old. 


214 


CHIEF 

JOHN  MARTIN 


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215 


Robert  J.  Tyson 


R 


OBERT  JAMES  TYSON  is  one  of  San 
Francisco's   leading   bankers,   and   as   such 


occupies  a  prominent  place  in  the  western  bank- 
ing world.  He  is  president  of  the  Seaboard 
National  Bank,  and  in  addition  is  president  of 
the  Calistoga  National  Bank  and  vice-president 
of  the  Bank  of  Sausalito. 

Mr.  Tyson  is  a  son  of  Captain  L.  P.  Ty- 
scn,  who  arrived  in  San  Francisco  in  March, 
1 849,  and  so  belongs  to  the  California  pio- 
neers. The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born 
in  Denmark,  the  native  land  of  his  parents, 
March  1 6,  1 868,  coming  to  San  Francisco 
when  a  small  boy.  He  has  devoted  his  life 
to  affairs  of  business.  Mr.  Tyson  is  a  Re- 
publican in  politics.  He  was  married  at  Eureka,  Cahforma,  July  5,  1895,  to  Miss  Car- 
le tta   Carson.      They   have   two  boys,   aged    1  3  ard  8  years  respectively. 

AS  iSOUD  AS  TWE, 

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216 


HERBERT  E.  LAW 


217 


George  H.  Cabaniss 


GEORGE  HENRY  CABANISS,  judge 
of  the  Superior  Court,  has  been  in  pubhc 
hfe  in  California  for  many  years.  His  father, 
Thomas  T.  Cabaniss,  was  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  1  849.  Judge  Cabaniss  was  born  in  Yreka, 
Siskiyou  County,  November  11,  1861.  He 
was  graduated  from  the  Hastings  College  of 
Law  in  1884,  and  immediately  began  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession. 

For  two  years  he  was  a  prosecuting  attorney 
in  the  police  courts,  and  was  then  elected  to 
the  office  of  police  judge,  which  he  held  for 
nine  years,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  Superior 
bench. 

He  was  married  in  1 894  to  Miss  Hattie 
Lowell,   also   a   native   daughter  of  pioneer   parents. 

George  Henry  Cabaniss,  Jr.,  the  judge's  only  son,  is  a  Californian  of  Californians,  having  been 
born    on    Admission   Day,   September   9,    1 900. 


218 


PERCY  T.  MORGAN 


2.9 


Edward  Robeson  Taylor 


EDWARD  ROBESON  TAYLOR,  for- 
mer mayor  of  San  Francisco,  was  born  in 
Sprmgfieid.  111.,  September  24,  1838.  He 
grew  up  in  Boonville,  Mo.,  where  he  learned 
the  printing  business  and  became  editor  of  a 
paper.  He  came  to  San  Francisco  in  1862, 
worked  on  a  Sacramento  river  steamboat  and 
prepared  himself  for  medical  lectures.  In  1  865 
he  graduated  from  the  Toland  Medial  College. 
.'\*^ter  two  years  of  practice,  he  became  private 
secretary  to  the  governor  of  the  State,  H.  H. 
Haight.  After  Haight's  term,  he  and  Dr.  Tay- 
lor became  law  partners,  the  doctor  bemg  ad- 
mitted to  practice  in  1872  and  practicmg  law 
steadily  for  twenty-seven  years  in  San  Francisco, 
until  elected  to  the  position  he  now  holds  of  Dean  of  the  Hastings  College  of  Law.  He  has 
been  on  two  boards  of  freeholders  to  frame  charters  for  the  city.  He  has  four  times  been  presi- 
dent of  the  San  Francisco  Bar  Association,  is  a  director  of  the  Public  Library,  president  of 
the  trustees  of  the  San  Francisco  Law  Library,  president  of  Cooper  Medical  College,  an  hon- 
orary member  of  the  State  Medical  Society  and  the  San  Francisco  Medical  Society,  and  is  a 
member   of   the   Academy   of  Sciences,    the   Bohemian   Club   and   the  Chit  Chat  Club. 

He  was  elected  mayor  by  the  Board  of  Supervisors  on  July  17,  1907,  and  was  elected 
for   two   years   by   the   people   in    November    of  the  same  year. 

He  has  published  the  following  books  of  verse:  Translations  of  the  Sonnets  of  Heredia; 
Moods  and  Other  Verse;  Visions  and  Other  Verse;  In  the  Light  and  Other  Verse;  Selected 
Poems;  Lavender  and  Other  Verse.  He  married  Miss  Agnes  Stanford  on  April  20,  1870 
Two  sons  of  that  marnaoe  are  now  living,  Edward  DeWitt  Taylor  and  Henry  Huntley 
Taylor.      After   her   death    he   married  f.'*iss  Eur.ice  Jeffers,   February  8.    1 908. 


220 


ALFRED  W.  WEHE 

Prominent  in  the 
Real  Estate  Business. 


221 


Fay  Charles  Beal 


AMONG  those  men  who  have  done  much  to 
bring  San  Francisco  to  her  present  up-to- 
date  position  is  Charles  Fay  Beal,  Secretary- 
Treasurer  and  General  Manager  of  the  Pacific 
Taximeter  Cab  Co. 

Mr.  Beal  was  born  at  Topeka,  Kansas,  May 
7th,  1 882,  and  started  his  taxicab  company  in 
San   Francisco  January    1 6th,    1 909. 

The  Pacific  Taximeter  Cab  Company  was 
the  first  of  the  kind  to  operate  in  San  Francisco 
and  was  incorporated  by  Mr.  Beal,  to  whom 
much  credit  is  due  for  its  success. 

Outside  of  being  a  good  Republican,  Mr. 
Beal  cares  little  for  anything  but  making  a  suc- 
cess of  his  company.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Family  Club,  the  Olympic  Club,  the  Corinthian 
Yacht  Club  and  San  Francisco  Motor  Club, 
and  has  taken  part  m  all  shows  and  entertain- 
ments  given    by  all   the   above   clubs. 


222 


GUY  T.  WAYMAN 


223 


W.  R.  Bacon 


VVT- ALTER  ROMAYNE  BACON,  attor- 
ney-at-law,  is  a  descendant  of  Nathaniel 
Bacon  of  Virginia  and  John  Griswold  of  Massa- 
chusetts, so  that  the  best  blood  of  both  North  and 
South  flows  in  his  veins.  His  father  was  Francis 
Marion  Bacon  of  Pennsylvania,  and  his  mother 
Sarah   Felton   Griswold   of  Vermont. 

Mr.  Bacon  was  born  in  Miami  County,  In- 
diana, in  1857.  He  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools,  and  after  studying  law  and  rismg 
to  a  position  of  prommence  at  the  Nebraska 
bar,  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney  of  Hall 
County,  that  state,  m  1891.  He  is  a  Repub- 
lican politically. 


Since  coming  to  San  Francisco,  Mr.  Bacon  has  established  a  large  and  lucrative  practice. 
He  was  married  in  1 880  to  Evelyn  F.  Smith.  They  have  two  sons,  Francis  R.  Bacon,  who 
is  twenty-two  years  old,  and  Julian  Smith  Bacon,  who  is  nineteen. 


224 


ARTHUR  G.  SCHOLZ 


225 


Frank  Wood  Griffin 


To  FRANK  WOOD  GRIFFIN  belongs 
much  of  the  credit  for  restoring  in  recent 
years  California's  right  to  the  name  of  "  The 
Golden  State."  He  was  one  of  the  pioneers 
in  the  gold  dredging  industry  and  is  still  promi- 
nently identified  with  this  branch  of  mining, 
which  has  so  materially  increased  the  state's 
annual  output  of  gold.  Mr.  Griffin  was  born 
in  Weavers'ille,  Trinity  County,  in  1873,  his 
father  being  a  pioneer  banker  who  came  to  this 
state  in  1850  and  who  served  as  treasurer  of 
Trinity  County  for  twenty  years  without  an  op- 
ponent. Frank  Wood  Griffin  graduated  from 
Harvard  in  1896  as  a  mining  engineer,  though 
his  present  business  is  that  of  a  capitalist.  He 
was  married  in  1901  and  has  one  child,  a  daughter.  He  is  president  of  the  Western 
Engineering  and  Construction  Co.,  the  Griffin  Co.,  and  the  Alaska  Bonanza  King  Mining  Co., 
the  Douglas  Island  Mining  Co.,  and  the  Trinity  Quicksilver  Mining  Company;  first  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Natomas  Consolidated  of  California,  and  a  trustee  of  the  State  Mining  Bureau. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Harvard,  Bohemian,  University,  and 
Union  League  Clubs  of  San  Francisco,  the  Rocky  Mountam  Club  of  New  York  and  the 
American  Institute  of  Mining  Engineers. 


226 


O.  A.  TVEITMOE 


227 


Charles  S.  Fee 


To  EVERY  passenger  on  a  railway  train 
in  California,  the  name  of  Charles  S.  Fee  is 
known.  That  is  because  Mr.  Fee's  name  as 
passenger  traffic  manager  of  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific Railway  is  to  be  found  on  all  official  an- 
nouncements of  the  road  that  deal  directly  with 
the  passengers.  Mr.  Fee  has  been  m  the  rail- 
road business  for  thirty-seven  years.  He  en- 
tered it  in  1873  and  served  two  years  as  secre- 
tary to  the  general  superintendent  of  the  Michi- 
gan Central.  For  the  next  two  years  he  was 
chief  clerk  to  the  general  manager  of  the  North- 
ern Pacific,  and  then  from  1883  to  1904  was 
general  passenger  and  ticket  agent  for  the  North- 
ern Pacific.  On  April  1st,  1904,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  the  position  he  now  holds.  Mr.  Fee  was  born  in  Laurel,  Clermont  County,  Ohio. 
He  belongs  *o  several  of  the  prominent  clubs. 


228 


DR.  EDWARD  N.  SHORT 


229 


A.  Christeson 


ACHRISTESON,  vice-president  and 
•  general  manager  of  the  Wells-Fargo  and 
Company  Express,  has  a  career  in  the  express 
business  extending  over  a  period  of  thirty-seven 
years.  In  1873  he  began  with  the  American 
Express  Co.,  serving  it  in  various  subordinate 
capacities  until  1 884.  Then  he  became  assis- 
tant superintendent  at  Denver  for  Wells,  Fargo 
and  Company,  and  from  there  progressed  stead- 
ily through  its  service  until  in  1897,  he  was 
appointed  manager  at  Kansas  City  and  given 
charge  of  all  the  company's  business  between 
the  Mississippi  River  and  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tains. 

He  came  to  San  Francisco  in  1  899  as  man- 
ager of  the  Pacific  Department,  was  appointed 
general  manager  in    1 906,  and  vice-president  in  1  908. 

Mr.    Christeson   did  able  work  following   the  fire   of    1906. 
first   to   construct   temporary   quarters   in   the   old  location. 

He   planned   and    directed    the   reconstruction  of    the   company's   splendid    eight-story    building 
at  Second  and  Mission  streets. 


Hi 


IS    company   was   among 


the 


230 


H.  G.  SAMUELS 

Manager  of 
Logan  Bryan  &  Co. 


0&M1N     aRYAN 

it    CO. 


231 


Henry  Louis  Detjen 


SAN    FRANCISCO    is    noted    the    world 
over       for       its       restaurants.  Here, 

say  the  epicures  of  every  land,  one  can 
feast  as  nowhere  else.  Consequently  res- 
taurant and  hotel  men  occupy  a  po- 
sition of  importance  in  the  life  of  the  city,  by 
upholding  its  traditions  and  its  fame.  Henry 
Louis  Detjen  has  the  double  distinction  of  being 
a  restaurant  man  himself  and  of  bemg  a  son 
of  a  pioneer  San  Francisco  hotel  man.  Mr. 
Detjen  was  born  in  San  Francisco  of  German 
parents.  For  fourteen  years  he  has  been  in  the 
restaurant  and  bakery  business  on  the  water  front 
and  has  built  up  the  largest  business  in  that 
district.  He  is  proprietor  of  the  Vienna  Cafe  at  I  7  Market  street.  He  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  and  is  a  Democrat  in  politics.  Mr.  Detjen  is  generally  regarded  as  one  of  the 
solid  business  men  of  the  water  front  section  of  the   city. 


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233 


Samuel   B.  Welch 


PRESIDENT  of  the  firm  of  Cunningham, 
Curtiss  &  Welch.  Samuel  B.  Welch  is 
the  head  of  one  of  the  leading  stationery,  paper 
and  bookselling  concerns  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 
Mr.  Welch  belongs  to  a  family  that  has  been 
distinguished  in  American  history.  His  grand- 
father was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812,  and  his 
great  grandfather  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary 
War.  He  was  a  son  of  Samuel  B.  Welch  and 
Eliza  L.  Welch,  and  was  born  m  Charleston, 
South  Carolina,  in  r/Iarch,  I  849. 

Mr.  Welch  attended  college,  but  circumstances 
arose  preventing  his  graduating.  He  has  long 
been  an  independent  in  politics.  His  wife  before 
her  nfiarriage  was  Miss  Alice  Crighton. 


234 


Lew^is  Pierce 

LEWIS  PIERCE,  the  subject  of  this  brief 
sketch,  is  a  native  and  one  of  the  fore- 
most residents  of  Suisun  Valley.  In  fact,  he  is 
one  of  Solano  County's  wealthiest  men,  and 
recognized  by  his  ability  as  a  stockman.  He  is 
a  worthy  successor  to  his  father,  the  late  Lewis 
Pierce. 

Lewis  Pierce's  ranches  in  Suisun  Valley 
can  easily  be  said  to  be  unsurpassed  in  Cali- 
fornia. His  home  place,  in  the  heart  of  the 
Valley,  is  the  very  choicest  fruit  land,  but 
the  properties  he  is  most  interested  in  are  his 
two  ranges,  one  of  three  thousand  acres  or 
more  of  valley  lands,  the  other  of  as  many 
acres  of  marsh  lands,  over  which  graze  his 
hundreds  of  head  of  fine  cattle. 

Mr.  Pierce,  personally,  manages  all  his  business  affairs,  spending  the  greater  part  of  the 
year  at  his  home  in  Suisun.  In  addition  to  his  attention  to  his  cattle  interests,  Mr.  Pierce 
finds  time  always  to  have  a  few  fine  horses  cared  for  at  his  farm.  He  is  a  life  member 
of  Vallejo  Lodge  No.  559,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  the  Pacific  Union,  Union  League  and  Olympic 
Clubs   of  San    Francisco,    and   Armijo   Club   of   Suisun. 


235 


ROBERT    J.     DUNPHY 


236 


John  William  Van  Bergen 


THE  LATE  JOHN  W.  VAN  BERGEN 
was  one  of  the  men  who  contributed 
much  to  the  upbuilding  of  the  city  of  San 
Francisco,  and  a  work  of  this  nature  would 
not  be  complete  without  mention  of  this 
worthy  man. 

Born  in  the  city  of  New  York,  May  3 1 , 
1853,  he  came  to  San  Francisco  with  his 
parents  in  1856,  and  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death  in  1 898  was  one  of  the  leading  citizens 
of  San  Francisco. 

He  was  a  director  in  many  of  the  city's 
financial  institutions,  among  others  the  First 
National  Bank  and  German  Savmgs  and  Loan 
Society. 

He    was    for    many    years    the    head    of    the  wholesale  liquor  firm  known  as  N.  Van  Bergen 
&  Co.,  and  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  lead  ing  Republicans  of  the  State. 


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Martin  Beck 


MARTIN  BECK,  Managing  Director  oi 
the  Orpheum  Circuit,  has  his  head- 
quarters in  New  York,  although  much 
of  his  time  is  spent  in  Europe  m 
the  pursuit  of  his  business.  He  books 
all  the  acts  for  the  Orpheum  theatres 
and  IS  a  power  in  the  world  of  vaudeville. 
He  knows  the  merit  and  value  of  an  act 
immediately  he  witnesses  it  and  his  judgment 
is  regarded  as  final  by  the  leading  theatrical 
managers  in  this  country  and  in  Europe.  Mr. 
Beck  is  not  only  a  man  of  wonderful  execu- 
tive ability,  but  he  also  possesses  the  true 
artistic  temperament  and  his  constant  aim  is 
the  uplift  of  vaudeville.  His  experience  has 
taught  him  that  the  public  want  only  the  very 
best  and  he  never  fails  to  give  it  to  them ; 
for  instance,  he  induced  David  Belasco  to 
prepare  and  present  in  vaudeville  "Madame 
Butterfly"  and  "The  Drums  of  Oude,"  both 
of  which  are  scoring  brilliant  successes.  Mr. 
Beck's  greatest  achievement  and  one  which 
caused  the  entire  theatrical  world  to  gasp  with 
amazement  was  the  engagement  of  Madame 
Sarah  Bernhardt  for  a  tour  of  the  Orpheum 
Circuit    to   commence    this    fall. 


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Henry  C.  Smith 


HENRY  C.  SMITH  is  one  of  the  promi- 
nent young  architects  of  San  Francisco. 
Born  in  San  Jose,  Cal.,  he  began  his  architec- 
tural studies  at  an  early  age  and  has  had  wide 
experience  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  both 
here  and  in  the  East. 

After  graduating  from  an  architectural  school 
and  takmg  a  post-graduate  course  m  Philadel- 
phia, he  was  associated  with  a  firm  of  able 
architects  in  the  East  for  four  years. 

In  1 900  he  returned  to  his  home  and  com- 
menced practice  in  San  Francisco.  He  has 
been  unusually  successful  here,  having  designed 
more  than  125  school  buildings  throughout  the 
State    in    conjunction    with    his    former    partner,  Louis  S.   Stone. 

Mr.  Smith  has  gained  no  little  distinction  by  his  original  treatment  of  the  hills  surrounding 
San  Francisco,  and  the  unique  and  artistic  monuments  to  his  artistic  skill  in  this  direction  which 
may   be   seen    throughout   the   city   have   earned  him    the    sobriquet    of    "the    hillside    architect." 


239 


C.  A.  Muessdorffer 


CA.  MUESSDORFFER,  architect,  was 
•  son  of  K.  Muessdorffer,  a  pioneer  of 
eigfit  years  old,  and  his  parents  put  him  in  the 
technical  education  for  the  succeeding  ten  years. 
He  began  to  practice  his  profession  at  the  age  of 
tained  an  enviable  position.  Among  the  buildings 
Order  of  Eagles'  home,  the  Portuguese  American 
the  St.  Regis  apartments,  besides  many  others, 
building  of  the  city  after  the  fire  of  1  906.  He  is 
second  term  as  trustee  of  his  home  town  of  Ross, 


born  October  25,  1871,  in  California,  being  a 
1853.  He  showed  talent  for  drawing  when  but 
care  of  Professor  S.  Widder,  who  directed  his 
grounding  him  thoroughly  in  architectural  studies. 
24,  and  during  the  past  fourteen  years  has  at- 
he  has  designed  and  erected  are  the  Fraternal 
Bank,  the  Family  Club,  the  Marvin  building  and 
Mr.  Muessdorffer  took  an  active  part  in  the  re- 
a  Republican  in  politics,  and  is  now  serving  his 
Marin  County. 


240 


Frank  Cromwell  Phelps 

THE  subject  of  this  sketch,  Frank  Cromwell  Phelps,  has  long  been  one  of  the  most  widely 
known  of  the  responsible  officers  of  the  Pacific  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company. 
Mr.  Phelps  comes  of  that  sturdy  New  England  stock  that  has  always  figured  as  a  substantial 
factor  in  the  affairs  of  our  nation.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  and  his 
mother  a  native  of  Portsmouth,  New  Hampshire.  He  himself  was  born  in  North  Brookfield,  Massa- 
chusetts, on  March  17,  1863.  By  profession  an  accountant,  Mr.  Phelps  was  traveling  auditor 
for  the  American  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company  and  several  of  its  associate  companies  before 
being  appointed  to  his  present  position  as  auditor  of  the  Pacific  corporation.  Although  Mr.  Phelps 
has  been  an  interested  worker  in  the  ranks  of  the  Republican  party,  he  has  never  aspired  to  public 
office.       Mr.    Phelps    is    married    and    has    two  children. 


241 


A.  B.  SPRECKELS 


242 


Walter  D.   O'Brien 


W/ ALTER  D.  O'BRIEN  was  born  in 
I  880  in  San  Francisco.  He  received  his 
education  at  the  California  School  of  Mechanical 
Arts  and  the  University  of  California.  After 
leaving  college  he  follov^ed  mining  and  rail- 
road engineering  and  rose  from  chainman  to 
locating  engineer,  having  held  positions  as  as- 
sistant engineer  for  the  Southern  Pacific  Rail- 
road, Indian  Valley  Railroad,  and  locating  en- 
gineer for  the  Oregon  and  Pacific  Railroad 
and   the  Western   Pacific   Railroad. 

While  on  a  visit  in  Eastern  cities,  he  be- 
came conversant  with  the  method  of  financing 
real  estate  mortgage  loans  through  bond  issues. 
In  1 906  he  established  the  firm  of  Clarke  & 
O'Brien,  Bond  Brokers,  in  the  First  National 
Bank  Building,  for  the  purpose  of  handling 
real  estate  mortgage  loans  and  bonds  in  San 
Francisco.  The  firm  is  meeting  with  a  great 
deal   oi   success. 


COL.  J.  C.  KIRKPATRICK 


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Parker  S.  Maddux 


PARKER  S.  MADDUX,  Assistant  United 
States  Attorney,  was  born  at  Dixon, 
California,  May  29,  1 880.  He  is  a  son  of 
L.  J.  Maddux,  of  Modesto,  who  has  been 
for  several  terms  district  attorney  of  Stanislaus 
County. 

Mr.  Maddux  was  graduated  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  California  in  1 902.  He  then  at- 
tended the  Harvard  Law  School  and  was 
graduated  there  in  1905,  returning  at  once  to 
the  Pacific  Coast  to  begin  practice.  His  work 
in  the  United  States  Attorney's  office  has  won 
him  high  praise,  as  his  position  at  the  California 
bar  is  already  one  of  distinction. 


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BERT  SCHLESSINGER 


246 


EDGAR  D.  PEIXOTTO 


247 


H.  G.  BEDWELL 


248 


DAVID  HOWARD  FOOTE 

Mr.  Foote  holds  the  position  of  Secretary 

of  the 

Pacific  Gas  and  Electric  Co. 


249 


Oscar   Sutro 


OSCAR  SUTRO  is  a  member  of  the 
widely-known  law  firm  of  Pillsbury, 
Madison  &  Sutro.  His  father,  Emil  Sutro.  was 
a  native  of  Aix  la  Chapelle,  and  came  to  this 
country  in  1853.  Mr.  Sutro  was  born  in  Vic- 
toria, B.  C,  graduating  from  the  University 
of  California  with  the  degree  of  B.  L.  in  1  894, 
and  obtaining  his  M.  L.  degree  the  following 
year.  He  was  a  member  of  the  California 
Legislature  in  the  1901  session,  and  that  same 
year  went  to  the  Philippines,  where  he  prac- 
ticed law  until  1 904,  when  he  returned  to  San 
Francisco.  Mr.  Sutro  is  a  Democrat.  He  is 
married  and  has  three  children,  Mary  Ann, 
Barbara  and  Oscar  Sutro,  Jr. 


250 


Jesse  Warren  Lilienthal 


JESSE  WARREN  LILIENTHAL.  Vice 
President  of  the  Bar  Association  of  San 
Francisco,  is  one  of  the  foremost  lawyers  on 
the  Pacific  Coast.  His  firm,  Lilienthal,  Mc- 
Kinstry  &  Raymond,  is  one  of  the  best  known 
law  firms  in  the  West. 

Mr.  Lilienthal  has  been  very  active  in  chari 
table  and  civic  affairs.  He  is  trustee  for  the 
Boys'  and  Girls'  Aid  Society,  the  Tuberculosis 
Society,  the  Temple  Emanu-El  and  the  Child 
Labor   Commission. 

For  three  years  he   served  on   the   Probation 
Committee  of   the  Juvenile  Court  of  San   Fran 
CISCO.      He  IS  a  graduate  of  the  Cincinnati  Col 
lege  and  of  the  Harvard  Law  School. 

He  was  born  in  New  York  in  1855  and  ha? 
been  a  highly  respected  citizen  of  San  Fran 
cisco  for  many  years 


251 


H.  V.  CARTER 


252 


Charles  Wellington  Cobb 


BORN  at  Gilroy,  California,  in  1871,  of  pioneer  parents,  Charles  Wellington  Cobb 
took  up  the  special  study  of  law  after  completing  his  general  school  and 
collegiate  course,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  California  Supreme  Court 
m  1897.  He  began  practice  m  San  Jose,  where  for  many  years  he  was  a  partner  of 
E.  M.  Rea.  Commg  to  San  Francisco  immediately  after  the  big  fire  of  1 906,  Mr. 
Cobb  formed  a  partnership  with  Francis  J.  Heney,  the  famous  government  lawyer,  and 
through  the  association  was  employed  to  assist  in  the  historic  San  Francisco  graft  prosecution. 
This  has  been  Mr.  Cobb's  sole  deviation  from  his  strictly  civil  practice,  to  which  he  has  con- 
fined himself  since  dissolving  his  partnership  with  Heney  in  1 909.  He  has  a  large  prac- 
tice, particularly  in  corporation,  land  and  probate  matters,  being  counsel  for  some  of  the 
largest   concerns   and   estates   in    the   city.      Mr.  Cobb  is  married  and  has  one  child,  a  daughter. 


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William  J.  Herrin. 


ONE  of  the  most  competent  of  San  Francisco's  attorneys  is  Wililam  J.  Herrin.  A  native 
son,  having  been  born  in  Yuba  County,  California,  he  is  the  true  type  of  self-made 
man,  for  by  his  own  efforts  he  earned  the  money  that  enabled  him  to  obtain  a  college 
education  and  later  graduate  from  the  Hastings  College   of   Law. 

He  entered  upon  his  profession  in  Oroville,  and  it  was  but  a  short  time  before  he  was 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  Northern  California.  In  1 892  he  removed 
to  San  Francisco,  where  he  has  remained  ever  since,  but  the  practice  that  he  built  in  the 
North  did  not  cease  to  grow,  so  that  now,  besides  the  great  demand  for  his  services 
here,  it  extends  over  many  of  the  Western  States.  Mr.  Herrin  has  always  been  a  staunch 
Republican,   but  has  never  held  political  office. 


255 


Jacob  J.  Gottlob 


JACOB  J.  GOTTLOB  has  for  man> 
years  been  one  of  the  leading  purveyors 
of  amusement  to  the  amusement-loving  people 
of  San  Francisco.  Born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  in 
I  860,  he  came  to  the  city  of  the  Golden  Gate 
as  a  young  man  and  began  his  career  m  the 
theatrical  business  as  treasurer  and  manager  oi 
the  famous  old  Bush  Street  Theater. 

Subsequently  he  w^as  manager  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Theater,  and  then  vs^ith  Melville  Marx 
managed  the  old  Columbia  Theater,  which  jusl 
before  the  fire  furnished  San  Francisco  its  finest 
line  of  theatrical  attractions. 

Immediately  after  the  fire  his  firm  built  the 
Van  Ness  Theater,  which  housed  the  great 
stars  and  their  companies  until  the  opening  of 
the  beautiful  new  Columbia  Theater  in  January 
of    1910. 

Mr.  Gottlob  is  one  of  the  theatrical  powers 
in  the  West  and  has  never  been  identified  with 
any  but  the  highest  class  of  attractions. 


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J.  C.  B.  HEBBARD 


257 


H.  A.  Jones 


PROMINENT  among  the  army  of  rail- 
road men  of  San  Francisco  is  H.  A. 
Jones,  freight  traffic  manager  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  Company.  Mr.  Jones  began  his  rail- 
road career  when  he  was  I  7  years  old,  starting 
with  the  Missouri  Pacific  in  the  humble  ca- 
pacity of  a  freight  check  clerk.  After  several 
years  he  moved  to  Sherman,  Texas,  where  in 
1874  he  became  yard  clerk  for  the  Houston 
&  Texas  Central,  later  becoming  chief  clerk 
and  cashier  at  the  same  station.  In  1 878  he 
entered  the  service  of  the  Pennsylvania  Com- 
pany as  its  commercial  agent  in  Texas,  resign- 
ing that  position  to  return  to  Sherman  as 
freight  agent.  In  1 885  he  became  traveling 
freight  agent  for  the  same  company,  which  sent 
him  a  year  later  to  Dallas,  Texas,  as  its 
freight  and  ticket  agent.  Later  he  became  the 
road's  assistant  general  freight  agent,  with  of- 
fices at  Houston.  His  next  promotion  was  in 
1892,  when  he  was  made  general  freight  agent 
of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company's  Texas  lines. 
In  1901  he  succeeded  C.  W.  Bien  as  freight 
traffic  manager  of  the  same  lines,  and  in  1 905 
was  made  traffic  manager.  He  was  brought  to 
San  Francisco  as  freight  traffic  manager  of  the 
Southern    Pacific   in   September,    1 906. 


258 


A.  F.  Rosseau 


ARTHUR  FRANCIS  ROUSSEAU. 
architect  and  structural  engineer,  has 
been  one  of  the  most  active  men  in  his  hne  in 
San  Francisco  for  several  years,  having  designed 
more  than  1 00  buildings  in  this  city.  They 
have  been  for  the  greater  part  large  apartment 
houses,  representing  every  line  of  construction, 
steel  frame,  reinforced  concrete  and  frame.  Mr. 
Rousseau's  father  vv^as  a  native  of  Paris,  France, 
while  his  mother's  birthplace  w^as  in  Kentucky. 
He  was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  August  13, 
1885,  and  received  private  education  in  his 
profession. 


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James  W.  Cochrane 


JAMES  W.  COCHRANE  has  for  many  years  been  very  active  in  matters  pertaining  to 
the  municipality  of  San  Francisco,  and  also  in  the  municipal  affairs  of  Marin  County,  and 
is    one   of    the    most   widely    known    lawyers    in  the   state  of   California. 

He  was  born  at  Newark,  N.  J.,  May  29,  1868,  and  came  to  California  with  his  parents 
when    a    mere    child,    and    has    resided    in    the  state   ever   since. 

He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  oT  San  Rafael,  Cal.,  and  graduated  from  the 
College    of    the   Sacred    Heart,    San    Francisco,  in    1 886. 

He  acquired  his  legal  training  in  the  office  of  that  noted  criminal  lawyer,  Hon.  Charles 
Bendavius.      In    1 889    he    graduated    from    the  Hastings   Law   College  with   high   honors. 

He  was  elected  to  the  District  Attorney's  office  on  the  Democratic  ticket  in  1 890  and 
re-elected   in    1892. 

Mr.  Cochrane  was  president  of  the  Mann  County  Board  of  Trade  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  is  interested  in  a  number  of  large  mining  companies.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Order  of  Druids,  the  Foresters,  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Eagles,  prominent  in  the  Y.  M. 
I.,  and  the  Native  Sons  of  California.  He  has  resided  in  San  Francisco  for  a  number  of 
years   and   is   still   a   resident   of   this   city. 


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Hon.  Carroll  Cook 


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ARROLL  COOK  is  one  of  the  most 
widely  known  of  Californians.  Born  in 
San  Francisco  on  January  15,  1855,  a  son  of 
Elisha  Cook,  a  noted  attorney  at  law  of  Buf- 
falo, he  graduated  from  Union  University, 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  in  1874,  with  the  degree 
of  LL.  B.  He  has  been  practicing  law  in  San 
Francisco  since  1876.  He  was  First  Assist- 
ant U.  S.  District  Attorney  from  1 884  to 
1 888,  and  in  1 896  was  elected  judge  of  the 
Superior  Court,  takmg  office  in  1897,  and 
servmg  six  years,  when  he  was  re-elected  for 
another  six-year  term,  at  the  expiration  of  which 
on  January  1 ,  1 909,  he  resumed  law  practice. 
Judge  Cook  handled  many  noted  cases  during 
his  service  on  the  bench.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Union  League  Club,  and  of  all  Masonic 
bodies,  besides  being  an  Eagle  and  a  Druid.  He  has  a  ranch  of  1,700  acres  in  Sonoma 
County,  where  he  makes  a  specialty  of  raising  thoroughbred  live  stock,  and  he  is  known  as  a 
great    dog   fancier,    owning    a    number   of    'blue  ribbon"  winners  of  several  breeds. 


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Edwin  L.  Forster 


EDWIN  L.  FORSTER  is  the  son  of  an 
early  California  pioneer  family.  He 
father,  Peter  B.  Forster,  was  one  of  the  four 
original  publishers  of  the  "Morning  Call." 

He  is  a  prominent  attorney  of  San  Francisco, 
and  a  thorough  Democrat.  He  attended  the 
Hastings  Law  College,  and  was  admitted  to 
practice    in    1 890. 

Mr.  Forster  maintains  offices  in  the  Mills 
Building  and  gives  special  attention  to  corpo- 
ration and  land  law. 

He  married  Luella  M.  Smith,  daughter  of 
Robert  and  Lizzie  Smith,  pioneers  in  Cali- 
fornia, and  has  one  daughter,  Florence  C. 
Forster,  now  completing  her  education  in 
Germany. 


263 


J.  W.  McLaughlin 


JW.  McLaughlin,  president  of  "The 
•  Americans,"  is  one  of  those  men  of  untiring 
energy  that  have  been  as  much  of  a  factor  in 
the  development  of  the  Pacific  Coast  as  have 
the    natural    resources    and    perfect    climate. 

He  was  born  at  New  Albany,  Indiana, 
April  30th,  1875,  and  early  became  identified 
with  the  Insurance  business.  "The  Ameri- 
cans," of  which  he  is  president,  is  a  fraternal 
organization  having  its  principal  offices  in  the 
Pacific  Building,  San  Francisco.  It  has  an 
insurance  feature  on  a  small  monthly  premium 
basis,  and  its  object  is  to  unite  in  the  bonds 
of  fraternity  white  persons  of  good  morals. 
It  teaches  care  for  the  comfort  of  fellow  men 
and   encourages  social   relationship,   which   tends   to  intensify  the  love  of  home  and  country. 


264 


Richard  W.  Davis 


RICHARD  W.  DAVIS  is  the  founder  and 
present  treasurer  of  the  Golden  Gate 
Yeast  Company.  His  father  and  mother  were 
both  of  Welsh  birth.  The  elder  Davis  came  to 
America  in  1845,  and  for  many  years  was 
chief  correspondent  of  "Y  Drych,  "  a  Welsh 
paper  published  at  Racine,  Wisconsin.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  at  Alton,  111., 
February  25,  1865.  He  came  to  San  Fran- 
cisco in  1 892,  and  organized  the  Golden  Gate 
Yeast  Co.,  to  which  he  has  devoted  many 
years.  He  is  also  president  of  the  Oregon 
Transportation  Company,  vice-president  of 
Fifield's  Steamship  Company,  and  president 
of  the  Mascot  Oil  Company,  all  San  Fran- 
cisco concerns.  He  has  also  been  interested  in  many  other  enterprises.  He  is  a  Republi- 
can   in    politics.       He    was    married    in     1908  at  Boston   to   Miss   Ida  Chase  Lee. 


George  C.  Holberton 


BORN  in  New  York  City,  schooled  and 
coUege-trained  in  New  Jersey,  "summer- 
pastured"  on  his  grandparents'  farm  in  New 
England,  "shop-tested"  for  nearly  three  years 
in  the  great  works  of  the  General  Electric 
Company  at  Schenectady,  and,  when  23, 
launched  to  "go  it  alone"  in  the  strange,  new 
neld  of  California ;  the  first  few  months  as  a 
workman  for  a  traction  company  in  Oakland, 
the  next  year  as  salesman  for  the  General 
Electric  Company's  San  Francisco  branch,  the 
next  two  and  a  half  as  an  engineering  em- 
ployee of  the  gas  companies  at  San  Francisco, 
Oakland,  Sacramento  and  Stockton,  the  next 
half-year  at  Centralia,  Washington,  as  general 
manager  of  the  water  company  of  that  town;  the  next  two  years  and  a  half  at  Bankok, 
Siam,  in  charge  of  the  electric  lighting  of  that  oriental  capital,  and  the  past  nine  with 
the  several  California  concerns  that  have  been  amalgamated  into  the  Pacific  Gas  and  Electric 
Company,  and  now,  at  the  age  of  39,  engineer  of  electric  distribution  for  this  com- 
pany's system  in  the  cities  of  San  Francisco,  Oakland,  Sacramento,  Berkeley  and  other 
places,  and  chief  engineer  for  its  water  works  in  the  city  of  Stockton,  where  pumping  plants 
at  seventeen  deep  wells  supply  water  through  many  miles  of  mains  to  a  community  of  30,000 
people. 


266 


Kenneth  Macdonald  George    A.  Applegarth 


J;^ENNETH  MACDONALD.  JR..  of  the 
architectural  firm  of  MacDonald  &  Apple- 
garth,  received  his  early  training  in  the  office  of  his 
father,  who  has  for  thirty  years  been  an  architect 
in  Louisville.  Ky.,  where  his  son  was  born.  The 
younger  MacDonald  obtained  his  C.  E.  degree 
at  Vanderbilt  and  his  B.  S.  A.  degree  at  Penn- 
sylvania. After  a  year  with  R.  M.  Hunt's  Sons 
in  New  York,  he  went  to  Paris,  where  he  studied 
design  under  M.  Pascelle,  taking  problems  of  the 
first  and  second  class  of  the  Ecole  des  Beaux  Arts. 
He  also  studied  water  color  under  Vignal.  He 
came  to  San  Francisco  in  June,  I  906,  and  formed 
his  present  partnership  with  G.  A.   Applegarth. 


p  EORGE  ADRIAN  APPLEGARTH 
^"^  was  born  in  Oakland,  California,  in  1877. 
Art  and  architecture  have  been  family  callings 
for  many  generations.  After  specializing  in  school 
on  architecture  and  its  allied  sciences,  he  spent 
six  years  in  the  office  of  his  uncle,  George  H. 
Sanders,  of  Wright  &  Sanders.  He  then  went 
to  Europe,  studying  and  traveling  for  five  years 
and  taking  his  diploma  at  the  Ecole  des  Beaux 
Arts,  Paris,  in  1906.  But  three  architects  on 
this  Coast  have  received  this  diploma.  Returning 
to  San  Francisco  after  the  fire  of  1  906,  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  Kenneth  MacDonald,  Jr..  and 
together  they  have  constructed  a  large  number  of 
the  finest  buildings  in  the  city. 


267 


J.  S.  ROSENBLATT 


266 


E.  FONTEILE 


269 


JOHN    E.  ALEXANDER 


270 


V.  GOGHLAN 


271 


Normand  W.  Mohr. 


NORMAND  W.  MOHR  first  attracted 
public  notice  at  the  time  he  strenuously 
pleaded  for  the  preservation  and  rehabihtation  of 
the  Old  City  Hall.  Shortly  after  he  served  as 
city  architect,  when  he  successfully  forced  the 
correction  and  strengthening  of  many  of  our  new 
school  buildings,  which  had  previously  been  dan- 
gerously and  erroneously  designed  by  others. 

He  was  the  first  architect  to  design  the  Civic 
Center,  combined  with  the  1915  Exposition — 
this  several  months  before  the  site  was  selected. 
He  has  always  been  an  ardent  advocate  of  the 
plan  for  the  improvement  and  beautification  of 
San  Francisco  by  the  late  famous  architect, 
Daniel  H.  Burnham.  He  was  born  May  30, 
1  880,  and  for  the  past  seventeen  years  has  suc- 
cessfully practiced  the  profession  of  architecture. 


272 


D.    McMAHON 


273 


F.  D.  SMITH 


274 


Harry  P.  Flannery. 


HARRY  P.  FLANNERY,  capitalist  and 
retail  liquor  dealer,  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania, August  6,  I  859.  He  graduated  from 
the  public  schools  and  then  took  three  years  of 
private  tuition  in  a  law  school.  For  many  years 
Mr.  Flannery  has  been  one  of  San  Francisco's 
prominent  citizens.  He  erected  the  first  Class 
"A"  building  in  San  Francisco  after  the  fire  of 
1906,  spending  $1  19,000  to  build  five  stories 
of  a  structure  that  is  eventually  to  be  extended 
to  eight  stories.  Mr.  Flannery  is  a  Democrat 
and  has  taken  much  interest  in  politics.  He  was 
a  supporter  of  Mayor  P.  H.  McCarthy  during 
the  latter's  campaign  of  1909,  and  was  appomted  by  the  mayor  as  president  of  the  Police 
Commission,    a    position    which    he   subsequently  resigned. 


275 


R.  P. 
McDONOUGH 


276 


B,  F.  JELLISON 


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277 


N.  M.  ADLER 


278 


JOHN  BERGEZ 


279 


W.  HUNT 


280 


H.  P.  ANDERSON 


261 


H.  B.  BLANCO 


282 


Frank  P.  McCann 


FRANK  P.  M'CANN,  widely  known  in 
San  Francisco  business  and  fraternal  cir- 
cles, is  the  son  of  a  pioneer,  but  was  born  in 
Victoria,  B.  C.  His  father  came  to  California 
in  1 848.  Mr.  McCann  was  secretary  of  the 
California  Liquor  Dealers'  Association  for  ten 
years,  and  was  formerly  manager  of  the  Mau. 
Sadler  Co.,  one  of  the  pioneer  houses  of  the 
Pacific  Coast.  He  has  been  engaged  success- 
fully in  the  saloon  business  for  1 6  years,  and 
before  the  fire  was  owner  of  ttie  Majestic  Cafe 
and  Bar,  one  of  the  finest  resorts  of  its  kind  in 
the  city.  Mr.  McCann  is  one  of  the  oldest 
members  of  the  Knights  of  the  Royal  Arch,  a 
charter  member  of  the  Fraternal  Order  of 
Eagles,  Aerie  No.  5,  and  a  charter  member  of  the  United  Commercial  Travelers,  Golden  Gate 
Council,  No.  80.  At  one  time  he  was  a  director  of  the  old  Occidental  Athletic  Club.  He 
is  married  and  has  two  children. 


283 


Charles  Allen  Slack 


CHARLES  ALLEN  SLACK  is  one  of 
San  Francisco's  popular  hotel  men.  He 
was  born  in  Lyons,  Iowa,  November  3,  186L 
being  a  son  of  Allen  and  Martha  M.  Slack. 
He  is  a  Republican  politically,  but  has  never 
been  an  active  political  worker.  Mr.  Slack  was 
married  in  Tracy,  Cal.,  July  II,  1887,  to 
Miss  Elda  Warksmith.  They  have  five  chil- 
dren. Mr.  Slack  owns  land  and  town  property 
of  considerable  value  at  Tracy. 


284 


James   J.    Donovan 


AMONG  the  few  men  who  have  been  able 
successfuly  to  engage  in  politics  and  busi- 
ness at  the  same  time  is  James  J.  Donovan,  who 
is  Superintendent  of  County  Jails  Two  and 
Three,  and  who  also  conducts  a  hotel  with 
profit  to  himself  and  satisfaction  to  his  guests. 
Mr.  Donovan  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1865. 
He  has  lived  in  San  Francisco  many  years,  is 
married,  and  has  always  been  active  politically 
on  the  side  of  the  Democratic  party.  He  was 
formerly  a  member  of  the  grocery,  hay  and 
gram  firm  of  Curtis  &  Donovan,  and  also  of 
the  contracting  firm  of  Donovan  &  Gallagher. 
He  has  always  been  an  enthusiastic  horseman, 
and  is  owner  of  "Dock,"  a  justly  famous  road 
horse. 


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286 


Thomas  H.  Williams 


THOMAS  HANSFORD  WILLIAMS 
was  born  in  Sacramento,  Cal.,  December 
9,  1 859.  He  is  a  son  of  Thomas  Hansford 
Williams,  Sr.,  and  Mary  Rebecca  Williams, 
both  of  whom  came  to  California  from  the 
South.  Mr.  Williams  was  graduated  from 
Santa  Clara  College  in  June,  1 880,  and  has 
since  been  engaged  in  business  involving  many 
large  interests.  He  is  one  of  the  prominent 
capitalists  of  the  State  and  is  perhaps  best 
known  as  president  of  the  California  Jockey 
Club.  Mr.  Williams  was  married  on  March 
23,  1901,  to  Miss  Beatrice  Grey  Steele,  and 
has  two  children,  a  boy  nine  years  old  and  a 
girl  of  five. 


287 


T  WINTON  GIBB  of  the  wholesale  liquor  firm  of  Gibb  &  Shawhan,  is  a  son  of 
James  and  Sarah  O.  Gibb,  and  was  born  in  San  Francisco  June  3,  1872.  His  father  was 
born  m  Leith,  Scotland,  and  his  ancestors  on  his  father's  side  were  all  of  the  Clan  Gordon. 
His  mother's  birthplace  was  Auckland,  New  Zealand.  Mr.  Gibb  was  educated  at  Liver- 
more   College. 

WILLIAM  DILL  SHAWHAN,  partner  of  J.  W.  Gibb  in  the  wholesale  liquor 
business,  is  another  prominent  business  man  of  Scottish  ancestry,  descending  from  the  Dun- 
mores  and  the  Erskines,  and  in  another  branch  of  the  family  from  the  Xaviers  of  France.  His 
great  grandfather  was  General  John  Sevier,  first  governor  of  Tennessee.  Mr.  Shawhan  was  born 
in  Buchanan  County,  Mo.,  August  14,  1861.  He  was  educated  at  Santa  Clara  College,  Cali- 
fornia. 


288 


Angelo   Grasso. 


ANGELO  GRASSO  is  one  of  the  prominent 
restaurateurs  of  San  Francisco,  his  official 
position  being  that  of  secretary  in  the  catering 
firm  which  he  directs.  Mr.  Grasso  was  born  in 
Italy  in  1854,  but  has  lived  in  San  Francisco  for 
many  years.  He  is  married  and  has  four  chil- 
dren of  ages  from  eight  to  eighteen. 


269 


CHASLES  F.  WEBBER 


290 


LOUIS  BLOT 


291 


AMBROSE  DUNN 


292 


A.  B.  CAUSE 


HARRY  LEAF 


294 


GEO.  ROSE 


293 


TEX  RICKARD 


2% 


W.  GRASS 


297 


FRAZIER  AND  FARRIS 


298 


C.  B.  DIBBINS 


299 


Wm.  P.  RYNE 


300 


EDDIE  GRANEY 


301 


MAYOR  CHRISTIE 
OF  EMERYVILLE 


302 


John  M.  Crane. 


AMONG  followers  of  the  turf  who  have  made 
fame  and  fortune  ^n  the  breeding  of  the 
finest  of  racing  stock,  none  is  better  known  than 
John  M.  Crane,  who  is  "Johnny"  Crane  to 
everybody  from  the  stable  boys  to  the  gentlemen 
who  have  the  biggest  racing  strings  on  the  tracks. 
Crane  was  born  m  the  sunny  San  Joaquin  Valley 
of  California  in  1872.  He  was  for  many  years 
in  the  cattle  business  on  a  big  ranch  near  Merced. 
He  served  an  apprenticeship  as  a  "cow  puncher," 
but  left  this  work  because  of  his  love  for  the 
horses.  He  has  bred,  owned  and  raced  horses  for 
twenty  years,  and  his  colors,  the  green  and  white 
stripes,  have  been  in  front  many  times.  Fellow- 
turfmen  point  to  "Johnny"  Crane  as  a  comrade 
who  has  always  been  "on  the  square."  In  all 
the  many  years  of  his  racing  experience  he  has 
never  once  been  in  trouble  with  the  judges.  He 
has  done  much  not  only  in  behalf  of  honest  sport 
but  in  the  breeding  of  horses  that  have  brought 
California  fame. 


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309 


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